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US taps seasoned diplomat to serve as civilian lead at Gaza ceasefire monitoring hub

24 October 2025 18:44 (UTC +04:00)

The US State Department announces that longtime diplomat Steven Fagin will serve as the civilian lead of the Civil-Military Coordination Center in southern Israel, which is monitoring and sustaining the ceasefire in Gaza, APA reports, citing the Times of Israel.

A career member of the Senior Foreign Service, Fagin has been US ambassador to the Republic of Yemen since May 2022. He was previously deputy ambassador at the US Embassy in Baghdad, principal officer at the US Consulate General in Erbil (2018-2020), director of the State Department’s Office of Iranian Affairs and director of the Regional Affairs Office in the State Department’s South and Central Asia Bureau.

Since joining the Foreign Service in 1997, he has also served abroad in Brussels, Islamabad, Astana, Mostar (Bosnia and Herzegovina), Minsk, Tbilisi, and Cairo, along with stints in Washington as a Pakistan desk officer and special assistant to then-under secretary of state for political affairs Nick Burns.