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Opinion
Russian President Vladimir Putin speaks during a joint news conference with Germany's chancellor following their meeting at the Kremlin, in Moscow, on Tuesday. That day the Kremlin said it pulled back some Russian troops but the U.S. and NATO have reject

Opinion: It's time we turn the tables on Putin

Feb 17, 2022
The United States should tell Russia its troops need to be back in their regular barracks by March 1, argues former diplomat Brett Bruen.
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World
President Biden participates in a CNN town hall at the Baltimore Center Stage Pearlstone Theater, on Oct. 21. When asked whether the U.S. would protect Taiwan if China attacked, he said the U.S. has a "commitment" to do so.

Would the U.S. defend Taiwan if China invades? Biden said yes. But it's complicated

Oct 28, 2021
President Biden has said the U.S. is committed to defending Taiwan, but Washington has traditionally stayed strategically ambiguous. Here's why.
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World
A staff person removes the Iranian flag from the stage after a group picture with representatives of the United States, Iran, China, Russia, Britain, Germany, France and the European Union during the Iran nuclear talks in July 2015 in Vienna.

Reviving The Iran Nuclear Deal: Here's What It Involves And Why It's Hard

Apr 05, 2021
Before the U.S. pulled out, the deal gave Iran money and gave the world assurances that Iran wasn't trying to build nuclear weapons.
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World
U.S. Consulate Lahore staff and participants including Maryum Saifee, second from right, in the ATX+PAK entrepreneurship program at the Mix festival in Lahore, Pakistan, an event inspired by Austin's SXSW events.

State Department Should Be More Diverse And Engaged Across U.S., Report Says

Mar 03, 2021
The Biden administration pledges a foreign policy that delivers to middle-class Americans. Linking up to locales across the country — outside D.C. — could help with that, according to a new report.
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Opinion
Friends and family members of slain prominent Lebanese activist and intellectual Lokman Slim (shown in the raised image), attend a memorial ceremony in the garden of the family residence in the capital Beirut's southern suburbs, a week after he was found

Opinion: Pursuing Diplomacy With Iran Doesn't Mean Ignoring Its Bad Behavior

Feb 18, 2021
Arab and U.S. liberals differ on how to handle Iran and its proxies, writes Firas Maksad. He says reactions to the killing of his friend Lokman Slim, a critic of Hezbollah, are a case in point.
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Politics
Secretary of State Antony Blinken speaks during his confirmation hearing before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee in Washington last month.

Secretary Of State Blinken: 'No Doubt' U.S. Diplomacy 'Tarnished By Recent Events'

Feb 16, 2021
"The very fact that we're constantly trying to build that more perfect union is an acknowledgement of our imperfection," Antony Blinken told NPR. "It's in the striving that you really make progress."
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Opinion
Yemenis wave their national flag during a rally commemorating the anniversary of the 2011 Arab Spring uprising that toppled the then-President Ali Abdullah Saleh, on Feb. 11, 2016, in the southern city of Taez. This year the Middle Eastern country marks

Opinion: Yemen's Arab Spring Goals Were Lost. Here's How To Bring Them Back

Feb 11, 2021
Retired Ambassador Gerald Feierstein argues the Biden administration should help end the war in Yemen and return the country to the peaceful path set in motion with Yemen's uprising 10 years ago.
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World
Joe Biden meets with NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg in Munich in 2015. Relations will no doubt be far more cordial under Biden, but Europe and the U.S. have differences that transcend the Trump administration.

Biden Is Good News For Europe, But China Challenges Await

Nov 30, 2020
Even as European Union leaders welcome more cordial U.S. relations, the trans-Atlantic partnership faces the tough test of handling China's expansion.
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World
Secretary of State Mike Pompeo (left) and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy arrive for a joint news conference in Kyiv, Ukraine, on Jan. 31.

'No Longer A Friend': Ukrainians Are Losing Faith In The U.S.

Feb 04, 2020
"America used to be a beacon of freedom, liberty and anti-corruption efforts. Now a lot of Ukrainians feel like ... we are by ourselves," says a Ukrainian political commentator.
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Middle East
This old building had until now served as the U.S. Consulate General in Jerusalem, which oversaw a key diplomatic line to Palestinian officials.

As U.S. Jerusalem Consulate Shuts, Pro-Israel Envoy Takes On Palestinian Relations

Mar 01, 2019
The U.S. Consulate General in Jerusalem long served as a key diplomatic line to the Palestinian Authority. Now the U.S. is downgrading the mission and merging it with the Embassy to Israel.
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