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The Biden administration says American citizens holding recently expired U.S. passports will be allowed to return home from abroad on that document until the end of year

The State Department has ordered non-essential diplomats at the U.S. Embassy in Chad to leave the African nation due to potential insurgent attacks on the capital.

The Treasury Department has issued new sanctions targeting holding companies that financially support the Myanmar military.

The United States and South Korea have reached an agreement in principle on a new arrangement for sharing the cost of the American troop presence

State Department strongly condemns the increase violence against protestors in Myanmar, suggests further action is coming

The State Department vowed on Wednesday that there will be consequences for those behind the deadly rocket attack in northern Iraq.

Mike Pompeo’s Madison Dinners had elite guest lists and raised questions about whether he was using the soirees to cultivate his political ambitions.

Biden’s National Security Council will discuss Iran before Secretary of State Antony Blinken meets with the foreign ministers of Germany, France and the U.K.

Biden says U.S. will not hesitate to raise the cost on Russia, calls for Navalny’s release in first address at State Department

President-elect Joe Biden is filling out his State Department team with a group of former career diplomats and veterans of the Obama administration

U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo says he discussed “global challenges” with a handful of members of a Paris think tank at the start of a seven-country tour of Europe and the Middle East

U.S. officials say an American citizen kidnapped in the West African nation of Niger this past week has been rescued in a U.S. military operation in neighboring Nigeria

Less than three months after Secretary of State Mike Pompeo was sworn in, his son, Nick, reached out to thank State Department officials for a private tour they had given him and his mother, Susan Pompeo, of the agency’s in-house museum. Nick Pompeo also had an ask: Could he or the software company for which he was a sales...

Democrats say they will interview officials who may have information about the ouster of State Department Inspector General Steve Linick

President Donald Trump announced that it would revoke special privileges granted to Hong Kong, including U.S. extradition policies and separate travel customs and visas from China, and will enact economic sanctions. The president said these measures were in response to China’s violation the 1984 Sino-British Joint Declaration, which gives Hong Kong a high degree of autonomy from Beijing.

Congressional Democrats say the State Department inspector general whom President Donald Trump fired last week was investigating possible impropriety in a massive arms sale to Saudi Arabia last year

The State Department inspector general who was removed from his job Friday was looking into whether Secretary of State Mike Pompeo made a staffer walk his dog, pick up his dry cleaning and make dinner reservations for Pompeo and his wife, among other personal errands, according to two congressional officials assigned to different committees.

Democrats are demanding that the White House hand over all records related to President Donald Trump’s latest firing of a federal watchdog, this time at the State Department

A Russian military cargo plane bearing a load of urgently needed medical supplies landed in New York’s JFK airport this week

The Trump administration is banning charter flights to Cuban cities besides Havana in a new tightening of U.S. restrictions on the island. In October, the administration banned commercial flights to cities outside the capital. The State Department said in a press release Friday that charter operators would have 60 days to wind down their flights to Santiago, Holguin and seven…