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“Welcome home”: Evacuation flight brings 200 Afghans to U.S.

July 30, 2021 at 6:48 a.m.

The first flight evacuating Afghans who worked alongside Americans in Afghanistan brought more than 200 people, including scores of children and babies in arms, to resettlement in the United States...

New leaders, new era: US-Israel relations reach crossroads

June 20, 2021 at 9:45 p.m.

Their countries at crossroads, the new leaders of the United States and Israel have inherited a relationship that is at once imperiled by increasingly partisan domestic political considerations and deeply...

U.S. Secretary of State Blinken off to Mideast to push peace talks after Gaza truce

May 24, 2021 at 10:21 a.m.

Secretary of State Antony Blinken will head to the Middle East on Monday to press the Israelis, Palestinians and regional players to build on and strengthen last week’s Gaza cease-fire,...

White House, Kremlin, aim for Biden-Putin summit in Geneva

May 24, 2021 at 10:09 a.m.

The White House and the Kremlin are working to arrange a summit next month between President Joe Biden and Russian President Vladimir Putin in Switzerland, according to officials.

United States Secretary of State Antony ...

Blinken touts Biden climate policies as shift from Trump

May 18, 2021 at 7:21 a.m.

On a trip overshadowed by the crisis in the Middle East, U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Tuesday touted the Biden administration’s abrupt shift in its predecessor’s climate policies...

White House press secretary Jen Psaki speaks during a press briefing at the White House, Tuesday, April 27, 2021, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

U.S. to restrict travel from India over COVID starting Tuesday

April 30, 2021 at 3:46 p.m.

The U.S. will restrict travel from India starting May 4, the White House said Friday, citing a devastating rise in COVID-19 cases in the country and the emergence of potentially...

Secretary of State Antony Blinken participates ...

U.S. orders big drawdown at Kabul embassy as troops leave

April 27, 2021 at 3:12 p.m.

The State Department on Tuesday ordered a significant number of its remaining staff at the U.S. Embassy in Kabul to leave Afghanistan as the military steps up the pullout of...

Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan ...

Biden recognizes atrocities against Armenians as genocide

April 24, 2021 at 12:58 p.m.

The United States is formally recognizing that the systematic killing and deportation of hundreds of thousands of Armenians by Ottoman Empire forces in the early 20th century was “genocide” as...

Biden to pull US troops from Afghanistan, end “forever war”

April 14, 2021 at 6:00 p.m.

WASHINGTON -- President Joe Biden said Wednesday he will withdraw remaining U.S. troops from the "forever war鈥� in Afghanistan, declaring that the Sept. 11 terror attacks of 20 years ago...

State Department spokesman Ned Price takes ...

U.S. weighs Beijing Olympics boycott with partners, allies

April 6, 2021 at 3:13 p.m.

The State Department said Tuesday the Biden administration is considering a possible boycott of the upcoming Beijing Winter Olympics to protest China鈥檚 human rights record.

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