Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy told U.S. lawmakers on Wednesday night that American financial support for Kyiv’s defense against the Russian invasion “is not charity” but “an investment…
State Department spokesman Ned Price said Tuesday the effort to restore the Iran nuclear deal “hasn’t been on the agenda” for months, but added that President Biden’s commitment to ensure Iran…
A video clip emerged Tuesday purportedly showing President Biden conceding that the Iran nuclear deal is “dead” but adding that he was not going to say as much publicly.
The Taliban’s decision to ban female students from attending universities has “seriously, possibly even fatally, undermined” its desire to improve relations with the U.S. and the rest of the world…
U.N. secretary general Antonio Guterres was criticized by a U.S. diplomat on Monday for not sending officials to Ukraine to investigate Moscow’s use of Iranian drones in its invasion, “apparently…
In rare criticism of the U.N. leadership, the U.S. on Monday chided U.N. secretary-general Antonio Guterres for not sending officials to Ukraine to investigate Moscow’s use of Iranian drones in…
President Biden told African leaders meeting in Washington that the U.S. will invest $75 million in “countering democratic backsliding” in Africa. He also said that the U.S. doesn’t “always get…
Addressing a gathering of African leaders in Washington, President Biden acknowledged the “imaginable cruelty” of the transatlantic slave trade, describing it as “my nation’s original sin.”
As allies of the Iranian regime voiced opposition Wednesday to its removal from the U.N. Commission on the Status of Women, Russia’s delegate wondered why U.S. membership on the commission was not…
Commenting on U.S. efforts to secure the release of Paul Whelan from a Russian prison, National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan revealed on Monday that in exchange for freeing the former U.S.…
Days after release from prison in the U.S., convicted arms trafficker Viktor Bout is doing the Russian media interview circuit, and was asked by the pro-Kremlin RT network if it was true he had a…
Seven weeks after taking up his post, U.N. high commissioner for human rights Volker Türk has made his first – cautious – public comments about the plight of the Uyghurs in China’s Xinjiang region…
Asked several times on Wednesday, State Department spokesman Ned Price said he had no reaction to the fact a federal judge has accepted the administration’s view that Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed…
“We urge any disagreements between our NATO allies to be worked out diplomatically between them,” State Department spokesman Ned Price said on Wednesday, when asked about veiled Turkish threats to…
Commenting Sunday on reports that the regime in Iran has dismantled the “morality police” – reports which Iran activists are viewing skeptically – Secretary of State Antony Blinken said it remains…
Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on Thursday said the Iranian regime should be kicked off the U.N. Commission on the Status of Women and “should never have been on there in the first…
The Biden administration is moving, “inch by inch,” towards formally recognizing Nicolas Maduro’s regime in Venezuela, Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) charged this week, saying such a move “would be a…
The Pentagon disputed China’s claim to have “essentially ejected” a U.S. Navy cruiser from a disputed area of the South China Sea this week, and accused Beijing of “trying to establish a new…
Repressive government action aimed at stopping peaceful protests in any country is “a sign of weakness,” not strength, Secretary of State Antony Blinken said on Wednesday, in response to a…
With Turkish leaders warning of an imminent military ground operation into northern Syria, the Pentagon said on Tuesday U.S. forces deployed there have reduced the number of joint patrols with…