The United States and Italy are present at the level of deputy foreign minister. The Riyadh meetings build on the outcomes of the Aqaba meetings held in Jordan on Dec. 14, 2024. These meetings ...

The meeting is part of efforts to reach a permanent ceasefire deal in Gaza between Israel and Hamas and finalize Israeli normalization with Saudi Arabia.

US Under Secretary of State John Bass, European Union’s top diplomat Kaja Kallas and UN special envoy on Syria Geir Pedersen, were all in attendance. The Riyadh Meetings on Syria first kicked ...