Antony Blinken: “We need an additional number of civil and foreign service employees to scale up the Indo-Pacific strategy.”

The U.S. government was concerned Beijing was considering augmenting its support for Russia with 'everything from ammunition to the weapons themselves.'

I can't go into the details of our conversations today except to say that our Egyptian counterparts were in communication with Hamas as early, as recently as a few hours ago.

We have offered them nothing not to invade Rafah except a plan to deal more effectively with Rafah.

We assess that Hamas has recruited almost as many new militants as it has lost. That is a recipe for an enduring insurgency and perpetual war.