The Latest Breaking News from State Department

The US State Department on Monday banned entry into the US of a Syrian intelligence member who appeared in a video leaked last year showing him fatally shooting people during the country’s 12-year conflict. The ban against Amjad Yousef, a member of Syria’s notorious Military Intelligence Branch 227, includes his…

My great-uncle Abe Feller was committed to the United Nations. Did Roy Cohn and Joe McCarthy break him?

US State Department condemns Israeli minister’s call for Huwara to be ‘wiped out’, calling it a ‘disgusting’ incitement.

Representatives from the United States, Britain, Qatar, Somalia, the United Arab Emirates and Turkey met on Tuesday and expressed concern at the conflict in and around Laascaanood, a disputed town in Somalia's northern breakaway region of Somaliland, according to a statement released by the State Department.

‘There’s currently more democracy in Mexico than in the United States,’ Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador says.

China’s Global Times was designated as a foreign mission by the US State Department under the Trump administration

House and Senate defense and spending panels will hold the first open hearings on Ukraine aid oversight since the war’s start.

On Tuesday, Russian President Vladimir Putin announced that Moscow will suspend implementation of New START, the last remaining treaty between Russia and the United States limiting deployed nuclear weapons.

U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken will attempt to show that Washington can be a reliable partner to countries in Central Asia on a visit to Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan next week, the to State Department official for South and Central Asia, Donald Lu, told reporters on Friday.