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Topic: State Department

May 17, 2013
12:18 am

A Syrian boy waves the Syrian revolutionary flag during a commemorative celebration of the second anniversary of the Syrian revolution, in Amman, Jordan, March 16, 2013. (photo credit: AP/Mohammad Hannon)

US blacklists 4 Syrian ministers, rebel leader

Treasury Department sanctions target both sides fighting in civil war

May 15, 2013
7:23 pm

Wendy Sherman (photo credit: CC-BY dbking, Flickr)

US explores new ways to press Iran on nuke program

State Department’s nuclear negotiator with Tehran presents Congress with new range of options to deter Islamic Republic

April 4, 2013
10:24 am

The domes of the Coptic Saint Mark's Church in Cairo, Egypt (photo credit: CC BY Bakar_88, Flickr)

Washington focuses on plight of Mideast’s minorities

House and Senate bills, coupled with Obama’s Bethlehem visit, may signal a keen interest in the tribulations of non-Muslim groups

By Haviv Rettig Gur

March 28, 2013
1:52 am

Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan (R) with Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh in January 2012 (photo: Mohammed Al-Ostaz / Flash 90)

Erdogan’s planned Gaza visit concerns US

Aid to Palestinians must ‘go through established channels’ and ‘meet Israel’s legitimate security concerns,’ spokesman says

By Sam Ser

March 20, 2013
10:32 pm

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu with US President Barack Obama at the welcoming ceremony in honor of the president's visit. (Photo credit: Kobi Gideon/GPO/Flash90)

White House Notebook: ‘Red lines’ and entourages

No signs of the sometimes-frosty relationship between Netanyahu and Obama on the president’s visit so far

February 9, 2013
12:42 am

Secretary of State and former Senate Foreign Relations Chairman John Kerry leaves a closed-door briefing on the investigation of the deadly Sept. 11 attack on the US consulate in Benghazi last December. (photo credit: AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Kerry says US weighing Syria options anew, is mum on arming rebels

White House fears weapons could end up in wrong hands and endanger Israel or the US, spokesman says

By AP and Michal Shmulovich

January 20, 2013
10:37 pm

Algerian special police unit officers guard the entrance of an hospital located near the gas plant where hostages were kidnapped by Islamic militants, in Ain Amenas, Saturday, January 19, 2013 (photo credit: AP/Anis Belghoul)

25 more bodies found at Algerian plant, officials say

At least 81 killed in hostage crisis; still unclear whether anyone was rescued in special forces operation

By Aomar Ouali and Paul Schemm

January 20, 2013
12:43 pm

Bloody siege over, de-miners scour Algeria complex

British premier says 3 Britons confirmed killed, 3 others feared dead in confrontation with extremist Islamist hostage-takers

By Aomar Ouali and Paul Schemm

January 8, 2013
6:38 am

In this photo released by the Syrian official news agency SANA, Syrian President Bashar Assad gestures as he speaks at the Opera House in central Damascus, Syria, Sunday, Jan. 6, 2013 (Photo credit: AP/SANA)

Assad is ‘evil, beyond brutal, not rational,’ US State Department says

Spokeswoman Victoria Nuland sounds off on Syrian president

By Sam Ser

January 1, 2013
2:05 am

Senators Joseph Lieberman and Susan Collins presenting the Benghazi report in Washington on Monday. (photo credit: AP/Susan Walsh)

Intelligence community behind fuzzy Benghazi reports, Senate finds

Committee report also concludes State Department was wrong to keep consulate open despite terror warnings

By Larry Margasak

December 20, 2012
5:54 am

Senator Dick Durbin, D-Ill., a member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, pauses as he speaks to reporters following a closed-door briefing on the investigation of the deadly Sept. 11 attack on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi, Libya, at the Capitol in Washington, Wednesday, Dec. 19, 2012. (photo credit: AP/J. Scott Applewhite)

Four State Department officials resign over Benghazi report

Senior diplomatic security officials step down amid outcry over mismanagement at Libyan mission

December 19, 2012
4:38 am

US envoy Chris Stevens speaking to local media in Benghazi last year. (photo credit: AP/Ben Curtis)

Review of deadly Benghazi attack finds systematic security faults

Panel cites State Department failures, says there was no protest outside US Consulate before terrorist ambush

By Matthew Lee

December 6, 2012
3:07 am

Polish lawmakers have not enacted any form of private restitution or compensation for the estimated $30.5 billion worth of property confiscated by the Nazis, then the communists. (Alik Keplicz/AP)

Poland seen as worst offender on Shoah restitution

Conference shows some progress, mostly evasion by governments across Central and Eastern Europe

By Dinah Spritzer

December 4, 2012
3:45 pm

Jailed Gross asks US to sign pact with Cuba

On third anniversary of imprisonment, State Department calls for Havana to release American Jewish contractor

November 29, 2012
12:42 pm

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks during a visit to an exhibition marking 35 years since Egyptian president Anwar Sadat's visit to Israel, at the Menachem Begin Heritage Center in Jerusalem, on Thursday, November 29 (photo credit: Miriam Alster/Flash90)

‘There is no power in the world that can disconnect the Jewish people from the land of Israel,’ Netanyahu says

Germany announces it will abstain at the General Assembly, Abbas brushes off ‘heavy’ pressure to abandon UN upgrade gambit

By Aaron Kalman and Gabe Fisher

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