President Donald Trump’s decision to keep the United States in the Iran nuclear deal on Friday was coupled with a warning to his European allies: “Fix the deal’s disastrous flaws, or the United States will withdraw.”
Videos have surfaced of Iranian parents protesting outside of Iran’s Evin Prison, some setting up encampments and confronting police, in defense of individuals arrested for protesting in the past two weeks.
WASHINGTON, DC – Senior administration officials announced on Friday that President Donald Trump will waive, once more, the nuclear sanctions that the terms of the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) require so that the United States can remain in the Iran deal.
Representative Andy Harris (R-MD) has asked colleagues to sign a letter urging the U.S. State Department to improve relations with Hungary and end the Obama-era policy of funding media to “interfere in Hungarian elections”.
Secretary of State Rex Tillerson allegedly considers President Donald Trump to be a “moron,” according to the explosive new book detailing life in the White House under the new administration.
In an interview with Voice of America published Monday, the State Department’s Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Iraq and Iran Andrew Peek revealed that the Trump administration is considering more sanctions on Iran should the regime escalate violence against the current wave of peaceful protests.
The State Department held a special press briefing Thursday with Brett McGurk, special presidential envoy for the Global Coalition to Defeat ISIS, and spokeswoman Heather Nauert. The focus was the 2017 successes against the Islamic State (ISIS).
“You need the prayer more than I do, I think. You may be the only ones. Maybe a good solid prayer, and they’ll be honest men. Is that possible?” he joked prior to the prayer.
Secretary of State Rex Tillerson arrived in Ottawa, Canada, on Tuesday to meet with Foreign Minister Chrystia Freeland and other high-ranking officials to discuss, among other issues, a multilateral approach to the North Korean nuclear crisis.
North Korea’s state media have finally responded to Secretary of State Rex Tillerson’s call for bilateral talks with “no precondition,” rejecting the offer and claiming that the United States is “sneered at by the international community.”
The State Department recently announced it was committing $700,000 to what might be called Project Overreach – an American government initiative to “help” the Hungarians get the “right” news.
Rex Tillerson denied Friday that there was “daylight” between President Trump’s policy on North Korea and State Department implementation.
America’s chief of naval operations said in an interview published Friday that U.S. options for a military response to North Korea’s routine belligerence are not “empty words” and that the military is “prepared” to act against Pyongyang if necessary.
North Korea’s state newpaper, Rodong Sinmun, published a piece accusing U.S. President Donald Trump of “noisily crying out for military counteraction” against Pyongyang a day after Secretary of State Rex Tillerson invited North Korean diplomats to a talk without preconditions.
Speaking from the 2017 Atlantic Council-Korea Foundation Forum in Washington on Tuesday, Secretary of State Rex Tillerson surprisingly announced that the Trump administration is ready to hold talks with North Korea without any preconditions.
Secretary of State Rex Tillerson will meet Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau next week to discuss an upcoming multilateral meeting on the North Korean nuclear threat, according to Reuters.
The Associated Press reported on Wednesday that the attacks on American diplomats in Cuba throughout the year may not be acoustic in nature, as doctors tell the outlet that they have found physical damage in patients’ brains.
Jared Kushner is stoking a widely reported feud with Rex Tillerson by pursuing his hopes for a peace deal in the Middle East.
The State Department and President Trump have maintained a united front in the face of reports that Secretary of State Rex Tillerson is on his way out.
President Trump dismissed rumors of Secretary of State Rex Tillerson’s imminent departure on Friday afternoon, declaring them “FAKE NEWS!” (caps in the original.)
White House Senior Advisor Jared Kushner is reportedly behind a plan to replace Rex Tillerson as Secretary of State — after a long-standing feud between the two intensified after Tillerson snubbed Kushner’s wife, Ivanka Trump, on her trip to India.
Morning Joe hosts Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski publicly urged Vice President Mike Pence and the Cabinet to remove President Donald Trump from office, accusing him of being mentally unstable.
President Donald Trump is thinking about forcing Secretary of State Rex Tillerson out of office, according to a report in the New York Times.
On Tuesday, former President Barack Obama embarked on a five-day trip to China, India, and France, where he will meet with Chinese leader Xi Jinping and Prime Minister of India Narendra Modi before speaking at the introductory session of the Les Napoleons Summit in Paris.
Ivanka Trump was reportedly once considered as a potential replacement for U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley if Haley became secretary of state.
Contents: Burma makes farcical agreement with Bangladesh to take back Rohingya refugees; China proposes farcical three-point solution to Rohingya crisis; India and China support Burma on Rohingya ethnic cleansing for business reasons
Saudi state news agency SPA reported that Secretary of State Rex Tillerson spoke on the phone Monday with Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, the leader behind Saudi Arabia’s wide-reaching and controversial corruption crackdown.
Nearly a dozen U.S. State Department officials have accused their boss Secretary Rex Tillerson of breaching American law by excluding Iraq, Myanmar, and Afghanistan from a U.S. list of countries that turn a blind eye to the abhorrent use of child soldiers, reports Reuters, citing internal government documents.
As the Middle East is facing fresh fissures, Mohammed bin Abdulrahman Al Thani, the Qatari foreign minister, is visiting Washington to bolster his country’s standing particularly with the Trump administration.
Contents: Speculation grows of North Korea’s Kim Jong-un illness as his weight soars; China’s envoy to North Korea fails to end nuclear crisis; Trump declares North Korea a state sponsor of terrorism
Chinese state media, which have routinely promoted its ties to Zimbabwe, published a story on Monday arguing that the Chinese government had long ago began divesting from Zimbabwe as the operation to remove 93-year-old dictator Robert Mugabe continues to generate world headlines.
WASHINGTON, DC. — A group of Republican and Democrat lawmakers has joined forces to pen a letter to United States Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley, asking her to clarify what appears to be implying that there is a distinction between “political” and military leaders of the Hamas terrorist organization.
Secretary of State Rex Tillerson told reporters that American and Chinese officials “had a frank exchange” on China’s illegal colonization of the South China Sea on Thursday.
Secretary of State Rex Tillerson said that a potential meeting with President Donald Trump and Russian leader Vladimir Putin remains “under consideration.”
The State Department offered support for Crown Prince Muhammad bin Salman’s ongoing crackdown on huge swaths of the Saudi Arabian power structure Tuesday, echoing, albeit less wholeheartedly, endorsements by the White House.
Secretary of State Rex Tillerson and Defense Secretary James Mattis argued this week against a new authorization for the use of military force that would place any limitations on the U.S. military’s ability to go after terrorists.
The government of China reportedly became Cuba’s largest trading partner last week after signing multiple million-dollar agreements with the fellow communist nation.
The rogue communist regime of Cuba has published an extensive report and hour-long documentary claiming that the sonic attacks on U.S. diplomats that occurred throughout the past year never happened, and that the diplomats involved mistook insect noises for sonic weapons.
State Department spokeswoman Heather Nauert told reporters on Thursday that the Trump administration expects Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad to exit politics at some point during the nation’s civil war, telling a reporter the Assad problem “will take care of itself.”
Iraqi troops and Iran-backed Shiite militia forces launched a new offensive against Kurdish Peshmerga forces in northern Iraq on Thursday. The Kurds reported taking artillery fire from the advancing forces.
