Not long after announcing that it would certify Iran’s ongoing compliance with the JCPOA or “nuclear deal,” the Trump administration announced new sanctions against Iran and its Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, for what Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin described as “malign activity.”
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).
TEL AVIV — A Russian translator who worked on behalf of the State Department, including during Hillary Clinton’s tenure as Secretary of State, was reportedly present at the June meeting at Trump Tower with President Trump’s son, Donald Trump Jr.
President Donald Trump’s administration is preparing a series of new sanctions on China over frustration that they are not doing enough to rein in the North Korean threat, days after the hermit state once again threatened to turn the United States into a “pile of ash.”
President Trump is attempting to overhaul the State Department and leave his “America First” stamp on the cumbersome bureaucracy — a move that is reportedly making former officials very nervous.
HAMBURG, Germany — The United States and Russia struck an agreement Friday on a cease-fire in southwest Syria, crowning President Donald Trump’s first meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin. It is the first US-Russian effort under Trump’s presidency to stem Syria’s six-year civil war.
The Trump Administration slightly lowered the number of foreign nationals entering the United States through a slew of family chain migration visas.
Former U.N. Ambassador John Bolton talked about North Korea’s Fourth of July missile test launch on Thursday’s edition of Breitbart News Daily with SiriusXM host Alex Marlow.
WASHINGTON – Today, Alika Kinan runs a foundation based in Argentina to help women who have been victims of sex trafficking.
On Monday’s broadcast of MSNBC’s “MTP Daily,” host Chuck Todd argued that if another country’s leader treated the press the way President Trump does, the State Department would say that country is creeping towards authoritarianism. Todd began by saying, “[O]n
PARIS, France — Former vice presidential candidate and Senator Joseph Lieberman is “optimistic” that President Donald Trump will move the U.S. Embassy in Tel Aviv to Jerusalem.
Once expunged from its official history, documents outlining the US-backed 1953 coup in Iran have been quietly published by the State Department, offering a new glimpse at an operation that ultimately pushed the country toward its Islamic Revolution and hostility with the West.
The U.S. Department of State’s 2017 Trafficking in Persons Report singles out eight nations for specifically trafficking children for purposes ranging from training and arming them as soldiers to servants and sex slaves. This designation brings sanctions to those countries on certain security assistance and commercial licensing of military equipment.
TEL AVIV — Amid a public relations crisis concerning the network’s Russia coverage, CNN on Tuesday night aired a one hour special documentary on allegations that Russia interfered in the 2016 presidential election.
The State Department rejected claims that a meeting last week between Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas and senior White House official Jared Kushner went awry and an unconfirmed report that US President Donald Trump was ready to pull the plug on efforts to revive Israeli-Palestinian peace talks.
Senior Republican members of the Senate Judiciary Committee have requested that the FBI and Department of Justice turn over applications for any warrants to monitor the communications of U.S. citizens associated with the investigation into alleged Russia interference in the
United Nations Ambassador Nikki Haley defended the Trump administration’s plan to drastically cut America’s spending on the UN Tuesday, telling a House subcommittee that the proposed cuts had sent “shockwaves” through the body — and that such cuts had put the UN “on notice.”
The Obama-appointed ambassador to Romania, Hans Klemm, has stoked a national debate on the role of U.S. diplomacy abroad by openly advocating same-sex marriage as the country deliberates over a proposed constitutional amendment affirming traditional marriage.
On Friday’s Breitbart News Daily, former U.N. ambassador John Bolton talked about the death of American student Otto Warmbier, recently released from more than a year of captivity in North Korea, most of which he spent in a coma. He also discussed what Warmbier’s death means for America’s North Korea policy moving forward. Bolton then looked at the one-year anniversary of the Brexit vote and U.S. policy toward the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
Russia has backed out of meeting with U.S. State Department officials at the Kremlin planned for later this week following the renewal of sanctions against Russia for its “ongoing violation” of Ukraine’s sovereignty by occupying parts of that country.
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.
American student Otto Warmbier’s imprisonment and murder by North Korea’s savage Communist regime prompted many questions about the tour group in which he participated.
The U.S. State Department has approved a cross-border pipe that would carry water from a desalination plant in Mexico into San Diego, California’s Otay Water District.
The family of former North Korean hostage Otto Warmbier blasted the Obama administration for its handling of his plight in a press conference on Thursday, as his doctors spoke of extensive brain damage and appeared to dismiss Pyongyang’s claims he was felled by botulism.
The number of nonimmigrant visas issued to travelers from the six majority-Muslim countries in President Trump’s immigration executive order has dropped dramatically since Trump’s inauguration.
The New York Times on Monday published details of what it described as an Israeli intelligence operation that penetrated the Islamic State and produced “exquisite” insider information.
During Thursday’s Senate Select Committee on Intelligence hearing, former FBI Director James Comey stated nine times that he could be “wrong” on various matters, including central points in the probe of alleged Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election.
The number of refugees admitted into the United States increased 19 percent in the month of May to 3,969, which was 653 more than the 3,316 admitted in April, according to the Department of State’s interactive website.
The U.S. State Department under President Trump has introduced stricter vetting procedures for all visa seekers.
The number of Syrian refugees admitted to the United States under the federal refugee resettlement program has declined for the fourth consecutive month.
“If he were standing here, he would tell you that he feels much more knowledgable on the topic today,” said Trump’s economic advisor Gary Cohn, referring to the president’s position on climate change and the Paris agreement.
During a hearing held by the Congressional Tom Lantos Human Rights Commission on Wednesday, an expert on Islam and counterterrorism said that the United States should take a “hard line” when it comes to addressing countries that enforce blasphemy laws that, if broken or perceived to be broken, can prove deadly.
Voice of America has posted videos online showing more footage of visiting President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s security guards attacking protesters as he watches from a car outside the Turkish Ambassador’s residence on Tuesday.
Albanian Socialist Prime Minister Edi Rama, a George Soros ally and a critic of President Trump, got a crucial political boost Thursday after U.S. diplomats helped end an opposition boycott of upcoming elections by warning the U.S. would likely accept election results even if no other party participated.
On Tuesday, security guards accompanying Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan attacked protesters who had gathered outside the Turkish ambassador to the U.S.’s residence.
On Tuesday, the Syrian government published a statement categorically denying American claims it had carried out mass executions at the Saydnaya military prison near Damascus, with a crematorium employed to dispose of the evidence.
For the past twenty-four hours, the Israeli news media have been hyping a story that a senior member of the American delegation prepping President Donald Trump’s trip to Israel sniped at his Israeli counterpart that the Western Wall – Judaism’s holiest site – is “not your territory”; it’s “part of the West Bank.”
Syrian President Bashar al-Assad has built and is using a crematorium inside his military prison complex to dispose of the prisoners executed at the facility in an attempt to hide evidence of mass killings, the State Department said.
Truman recognized Israel because, as he wrote, “I think the proper thing to do…is to do what I think is right and let them all go to hell.”
WASHINGTON — US President Donald Trump on Wednesday called on Russia to rein in Syrian President Bashar Assad and his key ally Iran, as Washington and Moscow sought to boost their fragile ties with high-profile White House talks.
