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Topic: US State Department

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January 16, 2013
4:38 am

In this image, taken from video obtained from the Shaam News Network, which has been authenticated based on its contents and other AP reporting, smoke rises from buildings from heavy shelling in Homs, Syria on Thursday (photo credit: AP Photo/Shaam News Network via AP video)

Secret State Department cable: Chemical weapons used in Syria

From the web Foreign Policy magazine reports that the US government suspects Assad used poison gas against Homs in December

January 11, 2013
10:47 pm

Syrian President Bashar Assad meets with Sen. John Kerry (D-MA), President Barack Obama's choice to become the next secretary of state, in Damascus, Syria in 2010. (photo credit: AP/SANA)

Kerry comments on Assad may draw scrutiny

Secretary of state candidate’s alleged ‘bromance’ with Syrian dictator could come up in confirmation hearings

January 10, 2013
3:23 pm

Freed Iranian hostages who were captured by the Syrian rebels since August, after their release in a prisoner swap in Damascus on Wednesday. (photo credit: AP/SANA)

Foul weather strands freed Iranian prisoners in Syria

US State Department says men liberated in swap are members of the Revolutionary Guard

January 7, 2013
5:08 am

Secretary of State Hillary Clinton giving a speech in Washington, DC, in October (photo credit: AP/J. Scott Applewhite)

Clinton set to return to work following blood clot

US State Department releases secretary’s schedule, with meetings starting Monday

January 7, 2013
2:37 am

US State Department Spokesperson Victoria Nuland (photo credit: US Department of State)

Obama administration rejects Assad’s peace initiative

State Dept. spokeswoman says Syrian leader’s plan is ‘detached from reality’

January 2, 2013
1:34 am

Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton (photo credit: AP/Manuel Balce Ceneta, File)

Clinton receives blood thinners to dissolve clot

Doctors expect US secretary of state to make a full recovery

January 1, 2013
2:14 am

US Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton pauses during a news conference at NATO headquarters in Brussels, Wednesday, December 5. (photo credit: AP/Kevin Lamarque, Pool)

Clinton expected to make full recovery after blood clot in head

Doctors say US state secretary did not suffer stroke, is in good spirits and making excellent progress

December 25, 2012
11:24 pm

An Egyptian elderly man shows his inked finger after casting his vote in the second round of a referendum on a disputed constitution drafted by Islamist supporters of President Mohammed Morsi in Fayoum, Egypt, on Saturday. (photo credit: AP/Khalil Hamra)

Egyptian constitution easily passes — with low turnout

As only one-third of voters show up for referendum, US State Department bluntly tells Mohammed Morsi it is time to make compromises

December 21, 2012
9:16 pm

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)

Obama names Kerry as next secretary of state, says senator’s ‘entire life has prepared him for this role’

Vietnam veteran and former presidential contender, with solid pro-Israel voting record, set for smooth confirmation to succeed Hillary Clinton

December 21, 2012
7:54 pm

Tourists take a stroll on the Tel Aviv promenade (photo credit: Serge Attal/Flash90)

US travel advisory says Israel, West Bank have gotten safer

State Department lowers alert, citing Tel Aviv and Haifa as particularly secure; government personnel still not permitted to use buses

December 21, 2012
5:42 pm

Mass. Senator John Kerry during a visit to Jerusalem in May (photo credit: Uri Lenz/Flash90)

John Kerry will be nominated for secretary of state, senior administration source says

A critic of settlement expansion who says Iran nukes must be stopped but who also slammed Romney’s overly aggressive stance on Iran, Kerry won 74% of the Jewish vote in his 2004 failed bid for the presidency

By AP and Times of Israel staff

December 17, 2012
10:51 pm

Children playing in Ramat Shlomo in 2010. (photo credit: Kobi Gideon/Flash90)

US condemns East Jerusalem building plan, Palestinians to petition UN

PA to ask Security Council for action on proposal to put 1,500 homes in Ramat Shlomo

By Ilan Ben Zion

December 13, 2012
6:00 am

US denies holding backchannel talks with Hamas

State Department urges Israel to reconsider withholding PA tax revenues; Ashton reportedly ‘shocked’ by Liberman statement comparing Europe’s stance on Mashaal speech to Holocaust era inaction

By Ron Friedman

December 10, 2012
11:48 pm

Footage from a video that purportedly shows a bombing carried out by Jabhat al-Nusra in Damascus in August (photo credit: YouTube screen capture)

US to brand Syrian opposition group as terrorists

State Department calls Jabhat al-Nusra ‘little more than a front for al-Qaeda in Iraq’

By AP and Ilan Ben Zion

December 8, 2012
6:18 am

US may label al-Qaeda-inspired Syrian rebel group a Foreign Terrorist Organization

Al-Nusra Front, a Salafi organization pushing for an Islamic state in Syria, is notorious for suicide bombings against the Assad regime

By Michal Shmulovich

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