{"id":47248,"date":"2024-02-06T01:31:15","date_gmt":"2024-02-05T15:31:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abnews.com.au\/?p=47248"},"modified":"2024-02-06T01:31:15","modified_gmt":"2024-02-05T15:31:15","slug":"blinken-arrives-in-riyadh-amid-heightened-mideast-tensions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/?p=47248","title":{"rendered":"Blinken arrives in Riyadh amid heightened Mideast tensions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>US Secretary of State Antony Blinken arrived in Saudi Arabia today, his first stop in a wider tour of the Middle East as Washington tries to advance negotiations on a normalization deal between the kingdom and Israel, as well as make progress on talks for the governance of postwar Gaza.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The top US diplomat&#8217;s fifth trip to the region since October 7 comes at a perilous moment and amid retaliatory US strikes on Iran-backed militia across Syria, Iraq, and Yemen in response to a drone strike last week in Jordan that killed three American troops and wounded dozens.<\/p>\n<p>Blinken is also set to visit Egypt, Qatar, and Israel this week and push to advance the Egyptian- and Qatari-mediated conversations with Hamas to achieve a hostage deal.<\/p>\n<p>In Riyadh, Blinken was expected to meet with the kingdom&#8217;s de-facto ruler, Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, and his Saudi counterpart, foreign minister Prince Faisal bin Farhan Al Saud.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>US Secretary of State Antony Blinken arrived in Saudi Arabia today, his first stop in a wider tour of the Middle East as Washington tries to advance negotiations on a normalization deal between the kingdom and Israel, as well as make progress on talks for the governance of postwar Gaza. The top US diplomat&#8217;s fifth [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":47249,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[369],"class_list":["post-47248","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-english","tag-blinken-arrives-in-riyadh-amid-heightened-mideast-tensions"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47248","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=47248"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47248\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=47248"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=47248"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=47248"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}