No easy stroll to the exit for Antony Blinken. With exactly eight days left as secretary of state, he’s only just concluded what is likely his last trip back-and-forth across the globe, with meetings in Seoul, Tokyo, Paris and, finally, Rome. Blinken has traveled more than a million miles on the job. “Every minute, every…
Roger Carstens, the Biden administration’s top official for freeing Americans held overseas, traveled to Damascus, Syria, on Friday for a high-risk mission: making the first known face-to-face contact with the caretaker government and asking for help finding missing American journalist Austin Tice. Tice was kidnapped in Syria 12 years ago during the civil war and…
Washington — Secretary of State Antony Blinken is testifying Wednesday before the Republican-led House Foreign Affairs Committee, which has long sought to question him over the deadly evacuation from Afghanistan. Blinken’s testimony comes nearly three months after the committee voted along partly lines to recommend that the nation’s top diplomat be held in contempt of…
