Palestinian-American lawmaker Rashida Tlaib on Friday rejected Israel’s offer to allow her to visit her grandmother in the West Bank, blasting the “oppressive conditions” set for the visit as humiliating.
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North Korea on Friday bluntly criticized South Korean President Moon Jae-in for continuing to hold military exercises with the United States and for his rosy comments on inter-Korean diplomacy, and said Pyongyang has no plans to talk with Seoul.
Read moreHate-filled voicemails and death threats terrorized employees of an Arab-American nonprofit for years, and the former State Department diplomat behind the harassment was sentenced Thursday to five years in prison.
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Shortly after President Donald Trump called for the ban, Israel said Thursday it will not allow two minority Democratic congresswomen who have been critical of the treatment of Palestinians to enter the country next week.
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The Trump administration’s top diplomat for Latin America has resigned amid internal disputes over immigration policy for the region, U.S. officials said Wednesday.
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Russian President Vladimir Putin said Monday that Russia would deploy new intermediate-range missiles only if the United States does and called for urgent arms-control talks to prevent a chaotic arms race after the demise of a key nuclear pact.
Read moreSecretary of State Mike Pompeo said Thursday that Washington isn’t asking any Asian nation to take sides as it engages with the region where China is battling for influence and aggressively expanding territorial claims in the South China Sea.
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The Senate voted 56-34 Wednesday to confirm President Donald Trump’s pick for U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, approving a longtime Republican donor with family ties to the coal industry.
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Senator Rick Scott wants to withdraw the Peace Corps from “hostile” countries such as China, the Florida Republican said Tuesday, in introducing legislation that would strip the program of its relative autonomy and put it under the State Department.
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Top diplomats from the Asia-Pacific region started gathering Tuesday in the Thai capital to discuss issues of concern to the area, including security on the Korean peninsula and China’s territorial claims in the South China Sea.
Read moreNorth Korean leader Kim Jong-un has inspected a newly built submarine and ordered officials to bolster the country’s military capabilities, state media reported Tuesday, as the North increases pressure on the United States before the possible resumption of nuclear diplomacy.
Read moreUkraine’s president on Friday outlined the details of an impending prisoner swap with Russia, saying that Kiev is willing to release a jailed Russian journalist in exchange for a Ukrainian film director.
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The U.S. and British embassies in Moscow said Wednesday that Russia has refused visas to teachers at a school that educates diplomats’ children.
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The Trump administration is objecting to France’s plan to tax Facebook, Google and other U.S. tech giants, a rift that’s overshadowing talks between seven longtime allies near Paris this week on issues ranging from digital currencies to trade.
Read moreIran’s foreign minister has suggested for the first time that the Islamic Republic’s ballistic missile program could be up for negotiations with the United States, a possible opening for talks as tensions remain high between Tehran and Washington over the collapsing nuclear deal.
Read moreA U.K. newspaper has published more leaked memos revealing a British ambassador’s blunt assessments of the Trump administration, including one in which the envoy to Washington claimed President Donald Trump pulled out of the Iran nuclear deal to spite predecessor Barack Obama.
Read moreBritish police opened a criminal investigation on Friday into the leaking of confidential diplomatic memos that cost the U.K. ambassador in Washington his job.
Read moreA second Trump term “would be catastrophic” to America, former Vice President Joe Biden told rallygoers Thursday, calling for the U.S. to better cooperate with Democratic allies worldwide.
Read moreBritain’s ambassador to the United States resigned Wednesday, just days after diplomatic cables criticizing President Donald Trump caused embarrassment to two countries that often celebrate having a “special relationship.”
Read morePrime Minister Theresa May backed Britain’s ambassador to the United States on Tuesday after President Trump cut off contact with him following the leak of diplomatic cables that branded Trump’s administration as “dysfunctional” and “inept.”
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