RIYADH, Feb 5, 2024 (BSS/AFP) - US Secretary of State Antony Blinken landed in Saudi Arabia on Monday to kick off his latest regional crisis trip aimed at securing a new truce in the Israel-Hamas war.

The top US diplomat's plane touched down in Riyadh, said an AFP journalist travelling with him, the first stop on Blinken's fifth tour of the Middle East since the October 7 attacks by Hamas which prompted massive Israeli retaliation.