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Byline: Josh Rogin Considering Iran's collaboration with U.S. adversaries in the Middle East crisis and the Ukraine war, not to mention the Islamic republic's nuclear ambitions, the Biden administration would [...]

Byline: Michael Birnbaum One of the Biden administration's toughest Russia hawks and the State Department's third-ranking official, Victoria Nuland, plans to retire within weeks, Secretary of State Antony Blinken said [...]

Byline: By When he was secretary of state, Henry Kissinger affected the lives of Foreign Service wives, including mine. Before his tenure, wives of Foreign Service officers were not allowed [...]

Byline: Glenn Kessler 'When I read the email, very, very detailed analysis of what's happening in Ukraine. Actually, far more detailed than anything I got as a U.S. senator from [...]

Byline: David Ignatius The Biden administration has granted legal immunity to Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, a protection that even President Donald Trump's administration didn't offer. For critics of [...]

Byline: Sherry Hakimi Friday, Oct. 14, was an eventful day for me. It started with a meeting with Secretary of State Antony Blinken, and it ended with death threats. I [...]

Byline: By The Post reported in its Oct. 21 news article 'American pleads guilty in death of British teen' that Anne Sacoolas, a so-called U.S. diplomat but in fact a [...]

Byline: Amy B Wang John Sullivan, who served as U.S. ambassador to Russia as President Vladimir Putin invaded Ukraine and returned full-scale war to the European continent, has left his [...]

Byline: Caroline Anders Welcome to The Daily 202! Tell your friends to sign up here . This is your Daily 202 researcher Caroline, in today for Olivier. On this day [...]

Byline: Maxine Joselow When President Biden vowed to 'intensify' relations with the Caribbean at the Summit of the Americas, he told leaders of more than a dozen Caribbean countries that [...]

Byline: Rachel Pannett State Department officials met with members of Brittney Griner's WNBA team on Monday to discuss the star's months-long detention in Russia, which the U.S. government called a [...]

Byline: Rosalind S. Helderman On Jan. 6, 2021, around the time that thousands of Donald Trump's supporters swarmed the U.S. Capitol, a top Trump appointee at the U.S. State Department [...]

Byline: David Ignatius It's hard to remember now that before the Ukraine war there was the Ukraine impeachment scandal. If the war is a tale of heroism, the scandal was [...]

Byline: Bart Barnes Phyllis E. Oakley, who retired as an assistant secretary of state in 1999 after more than 25 years of federal service -- and four decades after she [...]

Byline: Rachel Weiner From his home in rural Texas, a would-be defense contractor spun a web of fake companies and testing reports to pass off Chinese-made body armor as American [...]

Byline: Karen DeYoung The State Department has investigated, and the $5,800 bottle of Japanese whisky is still missing, along with a gold coin and assorted trinkets the Trump administration had [...]

Byline: Olivier Knox Welcome to The Daily 202! Tell your friends to sign up here. On this day in 1973, President Richard Nixon demanded the firing of Watergate special prosecutor [...]

Byline: Miriam Berger The mysterious illness now known as 'Havana Syndrome' began afflicting U.S. diplomats and intelligence officers in Cuba's capital, Havana, in late 2016. Victims reported the sudden onset [...]

Byline: Missy Ryan The Biden administration on Tuesday began planning for the next phase of the U.S. relationship with Afghanistan, as the State Department scrambled to stand up a remote [...]

Byline: Adam Taylor This post has been updated The disputed election was a 'sham' and a blow to democratic traditions. The country was in 'a crisis,' as rival electoral candidates [...]

Byline: Naima Green-Riley The State Department in mid-August designated the Confucius Institute U.S. Center (CIUS) as a 'foreign mission' of the Chinese government and called out the organization for its [...]

Byline: Yasmeen Abutaleb; Shane Harris Francis Collins, the director of the National Institutes of Health, ducked out of his granddaughter's swim meet into a dark recess of a Michigan high [...]

Byline: Karen DeYoung Secretary of State Antony Blinken began his maiden trip to the Middle East on Monday, a four-day visit to Israel, the West Bank, Egypt and Jordan designed [...]

Byline: Tyler Pager; Anne Gearan President Biden is expected to begin naming his choices for high-profile ambassador postings in May or possibly as soon as this week, several people familiar [...]

Byline: Editorial Board SECRETARY OF STATE Mike Pompeo adopted the term 'swagger' to describe the department's style under his leadership. It was a curious approach to diplomacy, and it led [...]

Byline: Karen DeYoung;Loveday Morris;Simon Denyer;Kareem Fahim The Biden administration has opened the door to lifting Trump-imposed sanctions against Iran that are 'inconsistent' with the 2015 nuclear deal, and also those [...]

Byline: Navigator Travel is ramping up again. But if you're hoping to travel internationally later this year, you should take a look at your passport. If it's close to expiring, [...]

Byline: John Hudson The violent assault on the Capitol broke a four-year spell on the Republican Party leadership's refusal to criticize President Trump. But not for Secretary of State Mike [...]

Byline: Josh Rogin When the federal government dispersed its first round of coronavirus vaccines to federal agencies last month, the State Department received and distributed them to about 1,100 employees [...]

Byline: John Hudson President-elect Joe Biden plans to name several former Obama administration officials to senior jobs at the State Department and National Security Council in the coming days, adding [...]

Byline: Carol Morello The deplorable state of relations between Washington and Moscow has gotten so bad that the United States cannot get visas for American technicians to come repair malfunctioning [...]

Byline: Annie Linskey;Sean Sullivan WILMINGTON, Del. -- Republicans had been gearing up for the first partisan brawl of the new administration -- a battle over whether to confirm the woman [...]

Byline: Annie Linskey;Matt Viser;John Hudson President-elect Joe Biden is planning to announce that he has selected Antony Blinken, one of his closest and longest-serving foreign policy advisers, as secretary of [...]

Byline: Isabelle Khurshudyan;Karen DeYoung MOSCOW -- Armenia and Azerbaijan have agreed to 'a humanitarian cease-fire' to begin at 8 a.m. Monday in the disputed separatist enclave of Nagorno-Karabakh, the U.S. [...]

Byline: Ellen Nakashima;David L. Stern;Natalie Gryvnyak;Paul Sonne The State Department last month revoked the visa of a Ukrainian political fixer who aided President Trump's personal attorney, Rudolph W. Giuliani, in [...]

Byline: Karoun Demirjian;Tom Hamburger;Paul Sonne A pair of Republican Senate committee chairmen released a report Wednesday that revived attacks on the son of Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden and argued [...]

Byline: John Hudson President Trump has appointed a new temporary leader of the State Department's internal watchdog office following the abrupt departure of a previous acting inspector general, creating another [...]

Byline: John Hudson When the United States hosts foreign leaders and dignitaries, a little-known office at the State Department is in charge of sweating every detail, from choreographing presidential greetings [...]

Byline: Daniel W. Drezner As the Republic collapses in on itself, our Strategic Pity Reserve is almost depleted. Still, if you can, please spare a quantum of sadness for Secretary [...]

Byline: John Hudson Senate Democrats released a scathing report on Tuesday about Secretary of State Mike Pompeo's management of the State Department, decrying the broad vacancies at the agency and [...]

Byline: Rori Kramer Rori Kramer is the director of U.S. advocacy for American Jewish World Service. She is a former deputy assistant secretary of state and previously worked as a [...]

Byline: Carol Morello The State Department imposed visa restrictions Friday on an unspecified number of current and former Chinese Communist Party officials deemed responsible for 'eviscerating' Hong Kong's freedom and [...]

Byline: Carol Morello The State Department on Thursday named 10 countries that it said engaged in government-sponsored forced labor, qualifying them for the lowest possible ranking in an annual report [...]

Byline: Kevin Sieff Honduras passed a new law this week that paves the way for greater cooperation with the United States to stop drug trafficking, focusing on deterring private jets [...]

Byline: Saikrishna Prakash It's open season on the nation's inspectors general, or so it seems. In the span of weeks, President Trump has ousted several IGs -- most recently Steve [...]

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Byline: Felicia Sonmez Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) on Tuesday defended President Trump's removal of Steve Linick as the State Department's inspector general, arguing that the president was well [...]

Nobody in business likes auditors: They can be intrusive, meddlesome second-guessers. But managers of publicly traded companies understand that independent auditing is essential, because it protects shareholders against fraud and [...]

Byline: John Hudson;Carol Morello Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and his top aides blasted the State Department's ousted internal watchdog on Monday, accusing him of mishandling leaks to the media [...]

Byline: Daniel W. Drezner Leadership is hard to define but easy to observe. Like Potter Stewart's definition of pornography, you know it when you see it. This holds for international [...]