{"id":13526,"date":"2024-02-03T13:02:43","date_gmt":"2024-02-03T13:02:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/?p=13526"},"modified":"2024-02-03T13:02:43","modified_gmt":"2024-02-03T13:02:43","slug":"borrell-calls-to-prevent-middle-east-escalation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/2024\/02\/03\/borrell-calls-to-prevent-middle-east-escalation\/","title":{"rendered":"Borrell Calls To Prevent Middle East Escalation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Agencies &#8211; Sudan Events<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>European Union foreign policy chief Josep Borrell on Saturday called on all parties to avoid further escalation in the Middle East after US strikes on Iran-linked groups in Syria and Iraq.<br \/>\n\u201cEverybody should try to avoid that the situation becomes explosive,\u201d Borrell said at a meeting on EU foreign ministers in Brussels.<br \/>\nThe United States launched air strikes against Iranian forces and allied militias in Iraq and Syria on Friday, with President Joe Biden vowing more to come in retaliation for a deadly drone attack on an American base in Jordan.<br \/>\nBorrell did not address the US strikes directly but repeated a warning that the Middle East \u201cis a boiler that can explode.\u201d<br \/>\nHe pointed to the war in Gaza, violence along the Lebanese border, bombings in Iraq and Syria and attacks on shipping in the Red Sea.<br \/>\n\u201cThat\u2019s why we call everybody to try to avoid an escalation,\u201d Borrell said.<br \/>\nThe EU is aiming to launch a naval mission in the Red Sea later this month to help protect international vessels from attacks by Yemen\u2019s Houthis.<br \/>\nBorrell said the mission would be \u201cdefensive\u201d and not conduct any attacks on land against the Houthis.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Agencies &#8211; Sudan Events European Union foreign policy chief Josep Borrell on Saturday called on all parties to avoid further escalation in the Middle East after US strikes on Iran-linked groups in Syria and Iraq. \u201cEverybody should try to avoid that the situation becomes explosive,\u201d Borrell said at a meeting on EU foreign ministers in &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":13527,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13526","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13526","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13526"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13526\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13528,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13526\/revisions\/13528"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13527"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13526"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13526"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13526"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}