The Biden administration has returned to the long-standing US position of calling for a two-state solution with the Palestinians and criticizing settlement expansion under Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Washington has stopped short of any substantive effort at negotiating a peace deal, seeing prospects as highly unlikely with Netanyahu.
Blinken reschedules postponed Beijing visit for June 18
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken will travel to China next week, rescheduling a visit that was canceled in February, US officials said Friday. Blinken is expected to arrive in Beijing on June 18, the first trip by a top US envoy to China since his predecessor Mike Pompeo in...
India, Pakistan came close to nuclear war in 2019: Mike Pompeo
Nearly four years after India and Pakistan used fighter planes to bomb targets in divided Kashmir, former US secretary of state Mike Pompeo has revealed in his memoir "Never Give an Inch" that the two rivals came close to nuclear war in 2019 and that US intervention prevented escalation.
