US Secretary of State Antony Blinken will travel to Saudi Arabia next week at a time of touchy relations between Washington and its longtime Middle East ally, the State Department announced Friday.
The Sudan and Yemen wars, the continued Islamic State threat, and building Riyadh’s relationship with Israel are on the menu for Blinken’s June 6-8 trip.
It comes as both the United States and Saudi Arabia are seeking to broker a durable cease fire between Sudan’s warring generals in talks in the Red Sea city of Jeddah.
“There is just a tremendous amount of work that we’re trying to do”…
