Jared Kushner

US cancels envoy travel, shifts from talks to pressure as Iran’s divisions deepen - analysis

Meanwhile, Tehran also doesn’t seem to be in a hurry. This comes as the White House has also indicated it is willing to settle in for the long term on the conflict with Iran.

U.S. Vice President JD Vance speaks during a news conference after meeting with representatives from Pakistan and Iran as Jared Kushner and Steve Witkoff, Special Envoy for Peace Missions, listen, on Sunday, April 12, 2026, in Islamabad, Pakistan.
Jared Kushner and Steve Witkoff, Special Envoy for Peace Missions listen as Vice President JD Vance speaks during a news conference after meeting with representatives from Pakistan and Iran, Sunday, April 12, 2026, in Islamabad, Pakistan.

'We have all the cards': Trump cancels US delegation’s trip to Pakistan for Iran negotiations

Vice President JD Vance disembarks Air Force Two after attending talks on Iran in Islamabad, at Joint Base Andrews, Maryland, US, April 12, 2026.

Trump threatens to bomb Iran if ceasefire breaks down as Vance reportedly en route to Islamabad

US President Donald Trump listens, as his son-in-law Jared Kushner speaks, during the inaugural Board of Peace meeting at the US Institute of Peace in Washington, DC, US, February 19, 2026.

Wiesenthal Center rabbi slams Japanese TV claim Kushner unfit for Iran talks because he is Jewish


Watch: 'You've carried the world's hopes,' Trump envoy Witkoff says from Hostages Square

Witkoff's remarks come after he and CENTCOM chief Admiral Brad Cooper confimed that Israeli forces in Gaza had withdrawn to the lines agreed upon in the Trump ceasefire plan.

The United States special envoy to the Middle East, Steve Witkoff, speaking to the crowd at Hostage Square in Tel Aviv. With him on stage, Ivana Trump and Jared Kushner. October 11, 2025.

WATCH: Netanyahu gives address after gov't approves Trump's Gaza deal

He noted that one of the main objectives of the war, alongside achieving the release of the hostages, was removing the Iranian threat, including the regime's proxies: Hamas and Hezbollah. 

  Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in an interview with The Jerusalem Post.

'Hamas is Hitler': Israeli ministers, US officials clash during gov't meeting to approve Gaza deal

Social Equality and Advancement of Women Minister May Golan also addressed Kushner at the meeting, saying that though Israel wants peace, there is no one on the "other side" who wants it as well.

 (L-R) Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and US Middle East Envoy Steve Witkoff.

Hamas agreed to deal after being convinced that hostages are a 'burden' to keep, US official says

“Within about two weeks, the first command post will be established in the Strip, with 200 American troops assisting in its construction,” the official said.

Palestinians celebrate, after US President Donald Trump announced that Israel and Hamas agreed on the first phase of a Gaza ceasefire, in Khan Yunis in the southern Gaza Strip October 9, 2025

Witkoff, Kushner arrive in Israel on Thursday night

Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner will arrive in Israel Thursday night after helping mediate Israel-Hamas ceasefire talks in Egypt.

Jared Kushner (L) and White House Special Envoy Steve Witkoff (R) arrive to attend a joint press conference held by US President Donald Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, in the State Dining Room at the White House, September 29, 2025.

Trump envoys Witkoff and Kushner arrive in Sharm el-Sheikh to join negotiations

US envoys Jared Kushner and Steve Witkoff arrived in Sharm el-Sheikh as Israel, Hamas, and mediators discuss a potential ceasefire and hostage deal.

: Businessman and former Senior Advisor to the President Doanld Trump Jared Kushner (L) and U.S. Special Envoy to the Middle East Steve Witkoff chat on the tarmac on before First lady Melania Trump and U.S. President Donald Trump on July 13, 2025 in Teterboro, New Jersey.

Videogame revolution, EA, acquired by Saudi fund in multi-billion dollar deal

The deal values EA at approximately 55 billion dollars. The acquisition is expected to close in early 2026 and requires approval from EA shareholders and regulatory authorities.

EA (Eletronic Arts) Sports logo is seen in this illustration, August 10, 2022.

Trump's post-war Gaza plan: Population relocation, 'digital tokens' for land - report

The administration's plan would see Gaza transformed into a tourism resort and a high-tech manufacturing and technology hub. 

Palestinians, displaced by the Israeli offensive, shelter in a tent camp as the Israeli military prepares to relocate residents to southern Gaza, in Gaza City August 17, 2025.

Trump holds Gaza policy meeting with Blair and Kushner, White House official says

They discussed all aspects of the Gaza issue, including escalating food aid deliveries, the hostage crisis, post-war plans, and more,

Smoke rises following an Israeli strike, in Deir Al-Balah, in the central Gaza Strip, August 23, 2025.

For his Jewish grandchildren and a ‘never again’ vow, Trump shatters Iran’s nuclear core - analysis

Three of Trump's grandchildren, Arabella Rose, Joseph Frederick, and Theodore James, are Jewish. The IRGC’s ideology brands their very identity an affront.

Never again. US President Donald Trump, next to his daughter Ivanka Trump and her husband Jared Kushner; grandchildren, as US flag is raised on a new flagpole installed on the South Lawn of the White House in Washington, last week