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Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Janine Herbst. The Secretary of State says negotiations for a ceasefire and a hostage deal in Gaza are intense. Antony Blinken made his comments in Jordan at the end of a Middle East trip that focused mostly on the situation in Syria. NPR's Michelle Kellerman has more.
Blinken huddled with Arab leaders in Jordan to agree on some basic principles for a new Syrian government after the fall of Bashar al-Assad's regime.
Our message to the Syrian people is this. We want them to succeed, and we're prepared to help them do so.
Speaking about the war in Gaza, Blinken says U.S. officials are trying to get a ceasefire and hostage deal over the finish line.
This is the moment to finally conclude that agreement.
He says Israel has achieved its core military objectives, degrading Hamas so that it can't repeat the kind of attack it led on Israel on October 7th of last year. Hamas still holds 100 hostages, seven of whom are Americans. Michelle Kellerman, NPR News, Tel Aviv.
Former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi underwent successful hip surgery in Germany after falling during a congressional delegation trip. And here's Claudia Grisales reports she was part of a group commemorating a World War II site.
Former Speaker Pelosi was part of a congressional visit to Luxembourg to mark the 80th anniversary of the Battle of the Bulge. At the time, House Foreign Affairs Chairman Michael McCaul was leading the bipartisan delegation of more than a dozen members ahead of the anniversary on December 16th.
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