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Myanmar president Thein Sein shakes hands with US Secretary of State John Kerry after their meeting at the President Office in Naypyitaw, Myanmar, on August 9, 2014. (EPA/MNA)

Kerry aims to calm South China Sea tensions

by Asharq Al-Awsat | Aug 9, 2014 | World

Naypyitaw, AP—US Secretary of State John Kerry is in Myanmar seeking to calm tensions in the South China Sea between China and its smaller neighbors. Amid concerns about recent provocative steps taken by China and others regarding several disputed territories in the...

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Secretary of State John Kerry at the State Department in Washington, Friday, Feb. 28, 2014, as he opened a fourth round of the US-Colombia High-Level Partnership Dialogue (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

Opinion: Kerry’s Political Dilemma

by Samir Atallah | Jul 27, 2014 | Opinion

There can be no doubts about the intentions of US Secretary of State John Kerry. From his actions as head of the US State Department, it is clear that he is a well-intentioned man. Based on these good intentions, he is always roaming the world, scarcely spending...

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A Palestinian woman reacts as she arrives to see her destroyed house in Beit Hanoun town, which witnesses said was heavily hit by Israeli shelling and air strikes, in the northern Gaza Strip on July 26, 2014. (Reuters/Suhaib Salem)

12-hour Gaza humanitarian truce takes hold

by Asharq Al-Awsat | Jul 26, 2014 | Middle East

Gaza and Jerusalem, Reuters—Palestinians in the Gaza Strip poured into the streets on Saturday to recover their dead and stock up on food supplies after a 12-hour humanitarian truce agreed by Israel and Hamas took hold. Women in Beit Hanoun wailed as medics pulled...

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Israeli security officers make their ways past buring tires as at least 10,000 Palestinian protesters marching against Israel’s military offensive in the Gaza Strip clash with Israeli soldiers and border police at the Israeli Qalandiya checkpoint, between Jerusalem and Ramallah, on 25 July 2014. (AFP/Abbas Momani)

Crunch time for Gaza truce talks as death toll passes 800

by Asharq Al-Awsat | Jul 25, 2014 | Middle East

Gaza/Jerusalem, Reuters—US Secretary of State John Kerry pressed regional proxies to nail down a Gaza ceasefire on Friday as the civilian death toll soared, threatening to spread Israeli-Palestinian bloodshed to the occupied West Bank and Jerusalem. With Israel and...

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A Palestinian man pushes his bicycle amidst debris following an Israeli military strike in Gaza city, on July 23, 2014. (AFP Photo/Mahmud Hams)

Israel pummels Gaza; Kerry steps up diplomatic push

by Asharq Al-Awsat | Jul 23, 2014 | Middle East

Gaza and Jerusalem, Reuters—Israeli forces pounded the Gaza Strip on Wednesday, sending thousands of residents fleeing, and said it was meeting stiff resistance from Hamas Islamists, as US Secretary of State John Kerry flew to Tel Aviv to push ceasefire talks. In a...