US Secretary of State Antony Blinken took off on an emergency trip to Jordan on Wednesday after the overthrow of neighboring Syria's dictatorship, in a new, last-minute attempt to shape a Middle East ...

Those close to Mr Witkoff – a former real-estate mogul whose biggest deal before his new role was the $632 million sale of New York’s Park Lane Hotel – testify to boundless energy, hard-headedness and ...