American Secretary of State Antony Blinken arrives this Monday, February 5, in the Middle East to encourage a truce between Israel and Hamas in the Gaza Strip. Tensions continue in the Red Sea, where maritime traffic is threatened by the Yemeni Houthi rebels, close to Iran.
The UN Security Council meets today to discuss recent US strikes in Iraq and Syria. For Russia, the American strikes are “a threat to peace and security” The representative of Moscow will defend this position before the United Nations Security Council.