
The United States is to engage in a renewed diplomatic push to calm tensions in the Middle East as the region teeters on the brink of a regional conflagration following a suspected Israeli strike on a Hamas leader in Lebanon, twin bombings in Iran and no end in sight to Israel’s war on Gaza.
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken will engage in some shuttle diplomacy while on a weeklong whistlestop tour of several countries that begins on Thursday.