State Department

Beltway Confidential

US ambassador wasted $1B in Somalia and is now funding a coup

Michael Rubin · February 7, 2020 7:21 pm

File - The Harry S. Truman Building, headquarters for the State Department, is seen in Washington.

Trump administration withholding close to $30 million in arms for Ukraine: Report

Katherine Doyle · February 7, 2020 1:00 am

A rhesus macaque monkey pauses while drinking from a water trough on Cayo Santiago, known as Monkey Island off the eastern coast of Puerto Rico, Tuesday, July 29, 2008.

US citizen kidnapped in Afghanistan

Zach Halaschak · February 6, 2020 8:02 pm

Top senator presses Pompeo for missing details in Clinton emails report

Kerry Picket · February 6, 2020 5:28 pm

Medical workers in protective suits move a coronavirus patient into an isolation ward at the Second People's Hospital in Fuyang in central China's Anhui Province, Saturday, Feb. 1, 2020. The death toll in China's virus outbreak rose to 259 on Saturday and Beijing criticized Washington's tightening of travel controls to bar most foreign nationals who visited the country within the past two weeks.

US military hosts dropped off supplies in the parking lot for quarantined coronavirus diplomats

Abraham Mahshie · February 4, 2020 8:35 pm

Medical workers in protective suits move a coronavirus patient into an isolation ward at the Second People's Hospital in Fuyang in central China's Anhui Province, Saturday, Feb. 1, 2020. The death toll in China's virus outbreak rose to 259 on Saturday and Beijing criticized Washington's tightening of travel controls to bar most foreign nationals who visited the country within the past two weeks.

China accuses US of sowing fear about deadly coronavirus

Cassidy Morrison · February 3, 2020 7:04 pm

Secretary of State Mike Pompeo delivers a statement on Iraq, at President Donald Trumpâs Mar-a-Lago property, Sunday, Dec. 29, 2019, in Palm Beach, Fla.

‘We ask for certain sets of behaviors’: Pompeo defends kicking NPR off trip

Caitlin Yilek · February 2, 2020 8:03 pm

Former U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine Marie Yovanovitch arrives to testify to the House Intelligence Committee, Friday, Nov. 15, 2019, on Capitol Hill in Washington, in the second public impeachment hearing of President Donald Trumpâs efforts to tie U.S. aid for Ukraine to investigations of his political opponents.

Ambassador embroiled in impeachment drama retires

Caitlin Yilek · February 1, 2020 5:44 pm

True China coronavirus cases number could be 10 times official figure: Study

Cassidy Morrison · January 31, 2020 6:01 pm

American Airlines' planes are parked at a gate at LaGuardia Airport in New York, Tuesday, Nov. 29, 2011.

Three airlines suspend flights to mainland China over coronavirus

Caitlin Yilek · January 31, 2020 5:41 pm

A Nigerien soldier provides rear security for his squad while they performed a dismounted patrol during Exercise Flintlock 2017 in Diffa, Niger, March 11, 2017. Flintlock exercises strengthen security institutions, promote multilateral sharing of information, and develop interoperability among partner nations in the Trans-Sahara.

Magazine - Washington Briefing

Memo to Mike Pompeo: Nothing is ever totally off the record

Jamie McIntyre · January 31, 2020 4:00 am

President Donald Trump speaks at a luncheon with members of the United Nations Security Council in the Cabinet Room at the White House in Washington, Thursday, Dec. 5, 2019.

State Department issues ‘Level 4: Do Not Travel’ China advisory

John Gage · January 31, 2020 2:43 am