The PLO representative in the U.S. charged Sunday that the root cause of the violence was Israel’s occupation of the Gaza Strip. Israel’s ambassador disputed that, pointing out that Israel had…
A State Department spokeswoman demurred Thursday when asked if the U.S. would respond to Germany’s expulsion of the CIA’s station chief at the embassy in Berlin over allegations of U.S. spying…
Asked late Thursday to highlight one thing that stood out during two days of high-level security and economic dialogue with China, Secretary of State John Kerry pointed to cooperation on major…
Asked late Thursday to highlight one thing that stood out during two days of high-level security and economic dialogue with China, Secretary of State John Kerry pointed to cooperation on major…
“What are we waiting for?” the chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee asked a senior State Department official Wednesday as she said, again, that sanctions targeting specific sectors…
A former head of Britain’s foreign intelligence agency, MI6, pointed in a spech to Saudi Arabia as a likely source of funding to the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIS), something the…
More than five months after President Obama told the National Prayer Breakfast gathering that he looked forward to nominating an ambassador-at-large for international religious freedom, he has…
State Department spokeswoman Jen Psaki reacted cautiously to the preliminary Afghanistan election results, saying they were not authoritative and that “serious allegations of fraud” had not been…
State Department spokeswoman Jen Psaki said Wednesday that the unity government set up by Palestinian Authority chairman Mahmoud Abbas a month ago and the reconciliation agreement with Hamas…
Russian President Vladimir Putin has issued a fresh warning that Russia could intervene militarily in Ukraine, where he said Russian “compatriots” were under threat after a ceasefire between the…
Iraq will have no choice but to look to countries like Iran and Russia for help if the United States cannot provide urgently-needed military aid in its fight against a Sunni insurgency led by al…
President Clinton referred in an interview broadcast Sunday to ten occasions during the Bush administration when he said U.S. diplomatic personnel had been killed. “How many outraged Republican…
President Clinton referred in an interview broadcast Sunday to ten occasions during the Bush administration when he said U.S. diplomatic personnel had been killed. “How many outraged Republican…
As Israel named two Hamas militants it said had kidnapped three teenagers two weeks ago, Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu urged Palestinian Authority chairman Mahmoud Abbas to end his unity…
With the clock running down on a ceasefire between Ukraine’s government and pro-Russian separatists in the country’s east, Secretary of State John Kerry on Thursday called on Russia to show, “in…
State Department spokeswoman Marie Harf on Wednesday repeatedly declined to offer an opinion on a congressional initiative to change the name of the street in front of the Chinese Embassy in…
President Obama on Wednesday mocked members of Congress who challenge man-made climate change, saying in many cases they really believed otherwise but didn’t want to be run out of town by those…
Confronted with the latest in a series of opinion polls showing declining American approval of the Obama administration’s foreign policy, Secretary of State John Kerry said Tuesday he doesn’t “…
Rep. Frank Wolf took his Presbyterian denomination to task Tuesday for a general assembly decision to divest from three U.S. companies doing business with Israel in the disputed West Bank, even…
As the last of Syria’s declared chemical weapons were handed over, the Obama administration maintained Monday that the Assad regime had reaped consequences for its use of the deadly agents to…
Secretary of State John Kerry pushed back Sunday at the notion that U.S. intervention to remove dictators in Iraq and Libya stoked terrorism and sectarianism, and is consequently to blame for the…
Secretary of State John Kerry pushed back Sunday at the notion that U.S. intervention to remove dictators in Iraq and Libya stoked terrorism and sectarianism, and is consequently to blame for…
The U.S. government recognizes same-sex marriages of foreign diplomats stationed in the U.S., and expects all other countries to do the same in their treatment of U.S. personnel deployed abroad…
At a time when debate is raging over the assertion that 97 percent of scientists endorse man-made global warming, Secretary of State John Kerry – a frequent citer of the 97 percent figure –in a…