John Kerry

On This Day: Fatah, Hamas factions form short-lived 'Palestinian Unity Government' to rule over PA

On June 2, 2014, Abbas forged a Hamas-Fatah unity government, sparking legal debates and political upheaval. The PA president dissolved the short-lived body in June 2015.

Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas chairs the first meeting of the Palestinian unity government, June 2, 2014.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and US President Donald Trump are seen shaking hands at a press conference in 2025.

Netanyahu presented Iran attack plan to former US presidents, former secretary of state claims

 US Secretary of State Antony Blinken, December 5, 2024 (illustration).

Blinken’s last bow: A hopeful blueprint haunted by October 7 - analysis

 YASSER ARAFAT reaches to shake hands with Yitzhak Rabin, as Bill Clinton stands between them, after the signing of the Israel-PLO Declaration of Principles, at the White House on September 13, 1993.

There is a possible path to peace - opinion


Kerry: US 'hopeful' it can work with China to tackle climate change

Sino-US relations have been strained in recent years by disagreements about trade, China's treatment of its Uighur minority, as well as China's actions in Taiwan and Hong Kong.

US Secretary of State John Kerry delivers remarks on Middle East peace at the Department of State in Washington December 28, 2016

It is official: US back in the Paris climate club

Scientists and foreign diplomats have welcomed the US return to the treaty, which became official 30 days after President Joe Biden ordered the move on his first day in office.

US President Joe Biden (R) and US climate envoy John Kerry (L) in this file photo from December 6, 2019.

John Kerry: Climate change top priority for Joe Biden administration

"President Biden knows that we have to be mobilized in unprecedented ways to meet a challenge that is fast accelerating."

US Secretary of State John Kerry delivers remarks on Middle East peace at the Department of State in Washington December 28, 2016

Why John Kerry and others were wrong about peace and Israel - analysis

Kerry said in 2016 that “there will be no advanced and separate peace with the Arab world without the Palestinian process and Palestinian peace. Everybody needs to understand that."

US Secretary of State John Kerry delivers remarks on Middle East peace at the Department of State in Washington December 28, 2016

John Kerry agrees with Iran’s Zarif: We declared 'economic war'

The former US presidential candidate, now a foreign policy chief, said that the US had been concerned about Iran’s support for Hezbollah and its missile program.

Former United States Secretary of State John Kerry (L) meets with Mohammad Javad Zarif, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Iran, at the United Nations in New York, September 26, 2015.

When tragedy becomes farce

The Palestinian leadership threatened that if it did not receive $61 million in “security cooperation” money from the US government, it would stop cooperating with Israel.

Bus flipped by tractor in Jerusalem terror attack.

Arab Press: What happened in the skies over Syria?

A weekly selection of opinions and analyses from the Arab media around the world.

John Kerry attends the NATO Summit in Warsaw on July 8, 2016.

Trump, Pompeo accuse Kerry of illegal meetings with Iranian counterparts

Pompeo accused Kerry of “actively undermining U.S. policy as a former secretary of state is literally unheard of.”

US President Donald Trump announces his intention to withdraw from the JCPOA Iran nuclear agreement during a statement in the Diplomatic Room at the White House in Washington, US, May 8, 2018

John Kerry vents frustration over working with Netanyahu in new book

Kerry writes that he lost trust in the Israeli PM.

Kerry, Netanyahu in Tel Aviv July 23

Obama, Kerry slam Trump withdrawal from Iran deal as path to war

"We could be hastening the day when we are faced with the choice between living with that threat, or going to war to prevent it," the former president said.

Former US president Barack Obama