In a phone call on Wednesday evening, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov told U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson that applying further sanctions against North Korea would be “counterproductive and dangerous.”
According to Politico contributing editor Rich Lowry, President Trump “is experiencing a bout of insubordination from his top officials the likes of which we haven’t witnessed in the modern era.”
The U.S. is reportedly considering scaling back its presence at the United Nations General Assembly next month.
Monday on his nationally syndicated radio show, conservative talker Rush Limbaugh reacted to the week before’s shake-ups within the Trump White House, including the departure of Sebastian Gorka. Limbaugh raised questions about Secretary of State Rex Tillerson and Trump advisor and
A new Vanity Fair article explores Ivanka Trump, her husband Jared Kushner and the couple’s role in Washington D.C. and the White House.
In the past several days, several members of President Donald J. Trump’s inner circle have publicly disparaged him—and the president has done nothing public to stop them.
U.S. President Donald Trump’s strategy to end the war in Afghanistan is “determined” to pressure the Taliban into reconciliation and a political settlement with the Kabul government by making the jihadists realize they cannot win, declared the top American commander in the war-ravaged country, echoing the State Department and the Pentagon.
As media outlets and observers try to put together a “doctrine” out of President Donald Trump’s actions during his young tenure in the White House, the role of the State Department in shaping said doctrine has remained elusive.
CNN revealed on Sunday that U.S. sources had stated the number of American embassy personnel in Cuba affected by a mysterious wave of sonic attacks that may have left some permanently deaf is significantly higher than initially reported.
With former White House Chief Strategist Steve Bannon out of the White House, globalists and hawkish interventionists in the Trump administration are reportedly wasting no time in pushing for a bigger U.S. military footprint abroad.
United States Secretary of State Rex Tillerson on Friday confirmed the death of at least one American in Thursday’s terrorist attacks in Spain and said there is still work being done to confirm “injuries and deaths of others.”
Contents: Barcelona attackers apparently had multiple coordinated attacks planned; ISIS takes credit for the Barcelona attack; White House officials appear to differ on North Korea military option
The Chinese Foreign Ministry issued a fiery response to the U.S. State Department’s accusations of flagrant religious freedom violations in its latest report on Wednesday, insisting America “mind its own business” and “respect the facts.”
Speaking in the gilded Treaty Room at the Department of State on Tuesday, Secretary Rex Tillerson re-confirmed the genocide designation against the Islamic State for its reign of terror in the Middle East and beyond as well as condemning serial human rights abusers Iran and China.
The United States is considering a campaign of airstrikes, or to be more precise drone strikes, against Islamic State militants in the Philippines. Terrorist vassals of ISIS have been fighting an insurgency on the southern island of Mindanao since May, despite assurances from the Philippine government that they would be swiftly defeated.
Contents: China further escalates the rhetoric threatening India over Doklam Plateau; China attempts to justify its claim to the Doklam Plateau
Following a series of condemnations from American officials over its latest missile test – and a bizarre affirmation that “we are not your enemy” from Secretary of State Rex Tillerson – the North Korean government has responded in its state media, demanding America keep its “stinky face” out of Asia.
The Global Times, a newspaper published by the government of China, has lauded Secretary of State Rex Tillerson’s remarks that the United States does not seek an end to the brutal communist regime of Kim Jong-un in North Korea and would prefer dialogue with it.
WASHINGTON, D.C. — The United States hopes to prevent a civil war from erupting in Syria after the defeat of the Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL), Secretary of State Rex Tillerson told reporters Tuesday.
Vian Dakhil, the only Yazidi woman serving in the Iraqi parliament, said on Tuesday that the designation of genocide for the crimes committed against the Yazidi people by the so-called Islamic State is “significant” but not enough.
At a State Department press conference on Tuesday, Secretary of State Rex Tillerson hastened to reassure North Korea that the United States does not seek regime change and still wishes to negotiate with the regime of Kim Jong-un.
The Trump Administration still hasn’t designated the Muslim Brotherhood as a Foreign Terrorist Organization as it was expected to do.
Center for Security Policy President Frank Gaffney joined SiriusXM host Alex Marlow on Wednesday’s Breitbart News Daily to discuss President Trump’s struggle to implement his agenda against opposition from Obama holdovers and the permanent bureaucracy, most notably at the State Department.
Former U.N. Ambassador John Bolton joined SiriusXM host Alex Marlow on Friday’s Breitbart News Daily to discuss his call for President Trump to pull America out of the Iran nuclear deal.
Despite some last-minute drama, the Trump State Department decided on Monday to certify that Iran is complying with the terms of the nuclear deal, formally known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA).
Secretary of State Rex Tillerson returned home from an extended trip to the Middle East on Friday, expressing a mixture of optimism that Qatar and the other Gulf states are finally willing to talk to each other and pessimism that they have anything meaningful to talk about.
Secretary of State Rex Tillerson spent Tuesday in Qatar after holding meetings in Saudi Arabia and Kuwait to resolve the Gulf diplomatic crisis. As of yet, there has been little sign of progress from Tillerson’s extended mission to the Middle East, although the Saudi royal family thanked him for his efforts.
The U.S. and Qatar signed an agreement Tuesday to crack down on the financing of terrorism. The agreement was signed as Secretary of State Rex Tillerson looks to resolve a crisis in the Persian Gulf between Qatar and Saudi Arabia and its allies.
Contents: US, Russia, Jordan agree on ceasefire deal for southwest Syria; Israel OKs ceasefire, but expresses severe misgivings; With ceasefire, American forces become more deeply involved in Syria’s civil war
Contents: Split grows between Iran’s president Rouhani and hardliners; Trump administration considers promoting Iran ‘regime change’
Friday on MSNBC’s “All In,” Rep. Maxine Waters (D-CA) ripped President Donald Trump for the manner in which he met with Russian President Vladimir Putin at the G20 summit in Hamburg, Germany earlier that day. Waters, a staunch advocate of Trump’s
Secretary of State Rex Tillerson gave a strong indication Friday that the Trump administration is taking a tougher stance against Syrian President Bashar al-Assad.
American Secretary of State Rex Tillerson told reporters Friday that President Donald Trump “pressed” President Vladimir Putin several times about Russia’s involvement in the 2016 election cycle during their first face-to-face meeting.
On Friday, as President Donald Trump met with Russian President Vladimir Putin, the U.S. State Department confirmed the two sides had reached a ceasefire agreement in Syria. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson called it, “the first indication of the U.S. and Russia being able to work together in Syria.”
During a press briefing on Friday, Secretary of State Rex Tillerson stated that during his meeting with Russia’s Vladimir Putin, President Trump “pressed” Putin on Russian involvement in the 2016 election more than once and the two had a “very robust
Reuters reported on Wednesday that China’s state-run National Petroleum Corporation has suspended fuel sales to North Korea for an undetermined period of time. CNPC is the primary supplier of fuel to North Korea.
The U.S. State Department unveiled its 2017 Trafficking in Persons Report Tuesday, which included a 3-tier rating for China — the lowest ranking that applies to countries that do not meet the minimum standards to prevent human trafficking and are taking no action to address the problem.
U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson and advisor to the president, Ivanka Trump, unveiled the “2017 Trafficking in Persons” (TIP) Report on Tuesday.
The U.S. State Department has called for North Korea to release three American citizens — who were taken hostage by the communist government on various charges of espionage and threatening the repressive Kim regime — the same week American Otto Warmbier, 22, was pronounced dead shortly after being freed after a year in captivity in Pyongyang.
TEL AVIV – Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu slammed the Palestinian Authority for its failure to condemn Friday’s terror attack in The Old City of Jerusalem, and urged the international community to put pressure on the Palestinians to end the practice of paying salaries to terrorists and their families.
