China’s top diplomat said at the weekend the U.S. decision to shoot down a Chinese balloon early this month was “absurd and hysterical,” an abuse of the use of force, a likely violation of…
Secretary of State Antony Blinken says he raised concerns with China’s top diplomat at the weekend that Beijing is considering providing weapons to aid Russia’s war on Ukraine, and warned that if…
The Chinese Communist Party’s top foreign affairs official told the Munich Security Conference that Beijing has always promoted a peaceful settlement to the Russia-Ukraine crisis. But “some forces…
Russia’s accusations that the West is trying to monopolize global affairs are “nothing more than just more hot air,” State Department spokesman Ned Price said on Wednesday. What Moscow is taking…
Defense Secretary Gen. Lloyd Austin said on Monday that the Pentagon does not know if the three high-altitude flying objects downed by the U.S. Air Force in recent days “were actually collecting…
U.S. Ambassador to the U.N. Linda Thomas-Greenfield called Monday for the Security Counil to authorize more crossings on the Turkey-Syria border to get aid to millions affected by the recent…
The Chinese surveillance balloon shot down by the U.S. Air Force on February 4 “went over three of our most sensitive nuclear sites,” on a mission to obtain intelligence on the U.S.nuclear…
The administration believes that two unmanned objects shot down by the U.S. Air Force over Alaska on Friday and western Canada on Saturday were balloons, but significantly smaller ones than the…
Chinese spy balloons have violated countries’ sovereignty on five continents, Secretary of State Antony Blinken said on Wednesday, adding that the U.S. government has already begun discussing last…
Outspoken British rock musician Roger Waters attracted fresh controversy Wednesday after accepting a Russian invitation to address a U.N. Security Council meeting on Ukraine. He drew scathing…
In a State of the Union address that was otherwise almost entirely devoid of foreign policy, President Biden on Tuesday night did speak about Russia and China, and in one puzzling, unscripted…
Republicans heckled President Biden when he raised the fentanyl crisis during his State of the Union on Tuesday night, drawing attention to the flow of the deadly synthetic opioid over the…
Ahead of a State of the Union address in which President Biden called for a “major surge” to tackle the deadly opioid epidemic, a U.S. Navy admiral and former U.S. Pacific Command commander said…
As the smoke cleared after the U.S. Air Force weekend shootdown of a Chinese surveillance balloon that drifted through U.S. airspace for days, senior Republicans said that while Beijing was trying…
Secretary of State Antony Blinken told Palestinian Authority chairman Mahmoud Abbas on Tuesday that he appreciates his “consistent and resolute stance against terrorism.” Abbas has not publicly…
As news of the murder of seven Israelis near a Jerusalem synagogue spread on Friday night, Palestinians in Gaza and the West Bank took to the streets in celebration, honking car horns, handing out…
Defending herself against allegations of a pattern of antisemitic statements, Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) said on Sunday that since a controversy blew up over comments she made in early 2019, she…
The religious freedom advocacy group Open Doors on Tuesday released the 30th edition of its closely-watched annual list of the 50 countries where it is most dangerous to be a Christian. It said…
Rep. Ayanna Pressley (D-Mass.) said Thursday she voted against a measure this week creating a bipartisan select committee on the security, economic, and technological challenges posed to the U.S.…
The State Department on Thursday restated U.S. opposition to the normalization of relations with the Assad regime, acknowledging that the issue has led to differences with some U.S. allies and…
Mexican President Andres Manuel López Obrador on Tuesday praised President Biden for not having built “even one meter of wall” along the U.S.-Mexico border, noting that it is a situation that “the…
Rep. Mike Gallagher (R-Wisc.), chairman of a new select committee on challenges posed by the Chinese Communist Party, said Tuesday it was essential it was a bipartisan effort: “The CCP doesn’t…
During a visit to Kentucky last week, President Biden raised some eyebrows when he declared, in reference to America, that other countries in the world are “not a patch on our jeans.”
The State Department said on Thursday it will with immediate effect begin calling Turkey “Türkiye,” after a request from the Turkish Embassy.
Israeli Ambassador to the U.N. Gilad Erdan told the U.N. Security Council on Thursday that when he heard it was holding an emergency meeting on a government’s minister’s “quiet, orderly and…