The Latest Breaking News from The State Department

"We set a goal to get back to pre-pandemic processing times before the end of the year," the State Department said.

The U.S. Department of Justice announced on Dec. 4, 2023, that Victor Manuel Rocha, a former U.S. government employee, had been arrested and faced federal charges for secretly acting for decades as an agent of the Cuban government. Rocha joined the State Department in 1981 and served for over 20…

"Allegations that the United States is encouraging violent actions against the Cuban government are absurd," An official from the State Department said.

The Biden administration is planning to construct a new U.S. embassy in Ireland

It's hard to keep track of Kissinger's crimes — but his handling of the Pakistan crisis of 1971 was up there

The U.N. says the Taliban must embrace and uphold human rights obligations in Afghanistan

The Biden administration said it has approved the emergency sale of nearly 14,000 rounds of ammunition worth more than $106 million as Israel intensifies its military operations in southern Gaza.

Going around Congress, the Biden administration says it's approved the emergency sale to Israel of nearly 14,000 rounds of tank ammunition worth more than $106 million as Israel intensifies its military operations in the southern Gaza Strip

Rocha has been accused of acting as an illegal agent of a foreign government and of defrauding the nation

The United States said Wednesday that Sudan's rival forces have both committed war crimes in their brutal conflict and alleged a new ethnic cleansing campaign in scarred Darfur.

The Biden administration says it has determined that both sides in the ongoing conflict in Sudan have committed atrocities in the western region of Darfur