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3 weeks ago | 
bostonglobe.com | Edward Wong |Michael Crowley
WASHINGTON — Secretary of State Marco Rubio unveiled a plan Tuesday to make major cuts to the State Department as part of a restructuring, calling the government’s diplomatic agency “bloated, bureaucratic” and “beholden to radical political ideology.”Rubio released the plan in the form of an organizational chart and a brief official statement.
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2 months ago | 
bostonglobe.com | Edward Wong |Isabel Kershner
WASHINGTON — Secretary of State Marco Rubio met with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel in Jerusalem on Sunday, where they discussed President Donald Trump’s insistent proposals for the United States to seize the devastated Gaza Strip and force out its Palestinian residents, among other matters.
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Oct 31, 2024 | 
miamiherald.com | Edward Wong
WASHINGTON – The Biden administration is turning to an unlikely interlocutor as North Korean troops move into combat position to help Russia in its war in Ukraine. To convey threats to North Korea, U.S. officials are talking to China. And U.S. officials say they hope the conversations further stoke any suspicions China might feel about the troop deployment. The U.S. government has assessed that China is uneasy about the rapidly strengthening security partnership between Russia and North Korea.
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Oct 1, 2024 | 
bostonglobe.com | Edward Wong |Julian Barnes
WASHINGTON — Israel’s airstrikes in Lebanon destroyed about half of the missiles and rockets that Hezbollah had accumulated over more than three decades, dealing a blow to the militia’s capabilities, according to senior Israeli and US officials. But the group’s arsenal remains formidable, with tens of thousands of projectiles across the country, and large barrages could overwhelm Israel’s “Iron Dome” antiprojectile defense system, the officials said.
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Sep 10, 2024 | 
bostonglobe.com | Edward Wong
LONDON — Secretary of State Antony Blinken accused Iran on Tuesday of shipping short-range ballistic missiles to Russia for use in Ukraine and said the Biden administration was imposing more sanctions against Tehran. The penalties include measures against Iran Air, the country’s main airline, he said. Russia is likely to use the missiles “within weeks in Ukraine against Ukrainians,” Blinken said at a news conference in London with British Foreign Secretary David Lammy.
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Aug 7, 2024 | 
bostonglobe.com | Edward Wong
Other US officials have received gifts of horses from Mongolia — Celtic was given to Vice President Joe Biden, Victory to President Donald Trump and Montana to Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld. And like them, Blinken did not take his horse home across the Pacific; if he had wanted to do so, the logistics were a reminder that the United States does not actually border Mongolia, the way China and Russia do.
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May 31, 2024 | 
bostonglobe.com | Edward Wong
PRAGUE — Secretary of State Antony Blinken left open the possibility on Friday that President Biden could allow Ukraine to use US-made weapons to strike at a broader array of targets inside Russia, going beyond attacks he has approved on launch sites the Russians are using for their current assault on the Kharkiv area.
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Feb 2, 2024 | 
bostonglobe.com | Edward Wong |Matina Stevis-Gridneff
More than 800 officials in the United States, the United Kingdom, and the European Union released a public letter of dissent Friday against their governments’ support of Israel in its war in the Gaza Strip. The letter is the first instance of officials in allied nations across the Atlantic coming together to openly criticize their governments over the war, say current and former officials who are organizing or supporting the effort.
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Jan 27, 2024 | 
bostonglobe.com | Patrick Kingsley |Edward Wong |Edward Wong
In a third track, U.S. and Saudi officials are pushing Israel to agree to conditions for the creation of a Palestinian state in exchange for Saudi Arabia forging formal ties with Israel for the first time. The demands and outcomes discussed in all three processes are linked, and the talks are mostly seen as long shots. The war began with the Hamas terrorist attack of Oct. 7 that killed about 1,200 people, Israeli officials said.
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Jan 26, 2024 | 
smh.com.au | Farnaz Fassihi |Edward Wong |Russell Goldman |Ronen Bergman
By Farnaz Fassihi, Edward Wong, Russell Goldman and Ronen Bergman Save Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Got it The United Nations has fired 12 of its employees in the Gaza Strip and began an investigation into them after accusations by Israel that they had helped plan and participated in the October 7 terrorist assault that left about 1200 Israelis dead and more than 240 others captured.
