The Latest Breaking News from Barbara Leaf

Israel wants Egypt and Qatar to pressure Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas to activate the security forces and prevent armed operations during the upcoming Jewish holidays. The Palestinian Foreign Ministry said Israel is responsible for the ongoing escalation, saying it regularly targets Palestinian citizens with the worst forms of persecution and…

The United States is pressuring the Palestinian Authority (PA) to stop its request for "full UN membership" and pushing a plan to ensure calm in the West Bank, according to a Palestinian source. The source told Asharq Al-Awsat that the US envoy, Hady Amr, arrived in Ramallah on Wednesday, ahead…

The Biden administration is seeking to reassure the Palestinians official ahead of next month's visit.

Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas told Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern Affairs Barbara Leaf that he is about to downgrade the level of ties with Israel, warning that the unsustainable situation cannot be tolerated anymore. In return, the US envoy asked the Palestinian President to await a possible visit…

Ramallah (Palestinian Territories) (AFP) - Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas hosted Saturday a US delegation led by Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern Affairs Barbara Leaf, ahead of an expected visit of President Joe Biden.

Barbara Leaf, US Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern Affairs, has ruled out any normalization with the regime of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad. In her testimony before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee on Wednesday, Leaf said: “I want to be clear on what we have not done in Syria,…