Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken with Chen Jining, the Communist Party secretary for Shanghai, on Thursday.

A destroyed car used by World Central Kitchen after an Israeli strike in Gaza this week. Defense Secretary Lloyd J. Austin III upbraided his Israeli counterpart, Yoav Gallant, over the deadly attack.

Israel’s Defense Minister, Yoav Gallant, with his U.S. counterpart, Lloyd Austin, at the Pentagon in Washington on Tuesday.

Defense Secretary Lloyd J. Austin III, center right, was in Germany on Tuesday for the start of a semiregular meeting of nearly 50 nations who are supplying Ukraine’s forces.

Defense Secretary Lloyd J. Austin III at a news conference at the Pentagon in Washington earlier this month.

Defense Secretary Lloyd J. Austin III came under widespread criticism last month when he went to the hospital for several days without disclosing it to the White House.

Defense Secretary Lloyd J. Austin III’s remarks came as the United States and the Iran-backed Houthis engaged in a flurry of back-and-forth strikes.

Five days after a hearing at the federal courthouse in Oakland, U.S. District Judge Jeffrey White dismissed a lawsuit by Palestinian Americans seeking to block U.S. support of Israel’s military campaign.

Protesters calling for a cease-fire in Gaza, during the first day of the California legislative session in Sacramento this month.

A fighter of the Iraqi Kataib Hezbollah militia group in Hilla, Iraq, last year.

Defense Secretary Lloyd J. Austin III, the former commander of United States Central Command, brought 40 years of service with him when he took the top Pentagon job in 2021.

“My prayers are with the brave Americans who were injured,” Defense Secretary Lloyd J. Austin III said in a statement.

Defense Secretary Lloyd J. Austin III, second from right, aboard the aircraft carrier Gerald R. Ford, in the eastern Mediterranean Sea, on Wednesday.

Armed men standing on the beach as the commercial ship Galaxy Leader, which was seized by the Houthis last month, was anchored off the coast of Yemen this month.

Israel’s defense minister, Yoav Gallant, rear left, meeting with U.S. Secretary of Defense Lloyd J. Austin III in Tel Aviv, on Monday.

Lloyd J. Austin III, the U.S. defense secretary, and his Israeli counterpart, Yoav Gallant, in Tel Aviv on Monday.

As the Biden administration navigates a crisis in Gaza, Defense Secretary Lloyd J. Austin III is taking a prominent role and also revealing more of himself.

Smoke rising over the Gaza Strip on Sunday following Israeli strikes.

Lloyd J. Austin III at the U.S. Embassy in Kyiv on Monday. He said he was visiting “to deliver an important message” that the United States would continue to stand with Ukraine.

A Chinese Coast Guard ship and a Chinese militia vessel blocking a Philippine Coast Guard ship last month.

Israeli armored vehicles near the border with southern Gaza on Saturday.

U.S. troops in northeastern Syria earlier this year. Near daily attacks this month have targeted U.S. troops in the area.

The aircraft carrier U.S.S. Eisenhower in Greece in 2021.

Ukrainian soldiers during a training session in Kharkiv, Ukraine.

In his first stop of a sweep through the Middle East, Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken told Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel, “We will always be there by your side.”

Israeli soldiers driving near Sderot, Israel, on Sunday. The Pentagon announced it would send munitions to Israel and move warships closer to the country.