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State Department spokesman Ned Price addressed the tragedy in Texas during a press conference on Wednesday.

Beth Van Schaack, the State Department’s ambassador-at-large for global criminal justice, on Wednesday said, “Secretary Blinken issued a statement that based on information that is currently available, the US. government assesses that Russian forces are committing war crimes in Ukraine.”

U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken says the violent repression of the largely Muslim Rohingya population in Myanmar amounts to genocide

A person close to the situation confirmed to NBC News that Griner was “OK” and that her Russian legal team has met with her.

Airlines have canceled more than 10,000 flights over the year-end holidays after the omicron variant sidelined crews.

Former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo changed longstanding State Department policy and violated the Hatch Act with his speech at the 2020 Republican National Convention, a government watchdog concluded in a report released Tuesday. The Office of Special Counsel’s 59-page report found Pompeo was one of at least 13 high-level Trump administration officials who violated the 1939 law designed to prevent the mixing...

The State Department’s inspector general informed Congress on Monday that the office is opening a series of probes into the Biden administration’s withdrawal from Afghanistan, according to a letter obtained by NBC News. Diana Shaw, the department’s acting inspector general, notified the heads of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee and House Foreign Affairs Committee, as well as the House...

The State Department inspector general is investigating whether Trump administration officials helped themselves to expensive Trump-branded gifts meant for foreign dignitaries, NBC News confirmed Tuesday. The Office of the Inspector General is investigating whether political appointees of then-President Donald Trump removed the taxpayer-funded presents from the State Department gift vault in January and took them home, a department official with knowledge...

In a reversal of Trump administration policy, the State Department has disclosed the number of nuclear weapons in the U.S. stockpile.

President Joe Biden next week will deliver his first speech before the United Nations General Assembly since taking office.

More than 23,000 Afghan refugees deemed to be “at risk” have arrived in the United States, State Department spokesman Ned Price said Wednesday.

“A new chapter of America’s engagement with Afghanistan has begun,” Secretary of State Antony Blinken said Monday. “It’s one in which we will lead with our diplomacy.… A new diplomatic mission has begun.”

The EU today recommended member states reinstate some travel restrictions on U.S. visitors, as the delta variant fuels a new wave of Covid infections worldwide.

Multiple federal agencies that operated in Afghanistan and worked with Afghan citizens have been hastily purging their websites, removing articles and photos that could endanger the Afghan civilians who interacted with them out of fear of retribution from the Taliban

U.S. State Department spokesperson Ned Price said the agency was working to “preserve calm” in Kabul. “Any effort, any attempt to target, to threaten to intimidate our personnel or our operations would be met with a swift and decisive response,” Price said Monday.

Blinken said in the email, which was obtained by NBC News, that the U.S. was doing all it could to investigate unexplained health incidents.

The Biden administration is expanding efforts to evacuate Afghan citizens from Afghanistan as Taliban violence increases ahead of the U.S. military pullout at the end of the month

Secretary of State Antony Blinken is condemning an incident in which a swastika was carved into an elevator wall at the State Department

High-level face-to-face talks between U.S. and Chinese diplomats on Monday highlighted sharp differences between the sides, although the tone appeared somewhat less contentious than at their last meeting.

The U.S. Department of State temporarily disabled its online appointment system as people are scoring emergency passport appointments online then fraudulently trying to resell them to desperate would-be travelers.