December 2, 2020 State Department mum on report that diplomats pulled from Baghdad embassy The State Department refused to offer specifics after the Trump administration pulled as many as half of America’s diplomats from the U.S. Embassy in Baghdad.
December 2, 2020 Behind the final Trump team push for Saudi Arabia to 'normalize' ties with Israel White House senior adviser Jared Kushner touched down in the Gulf this week in what observers say is a last-ditch effort to secure final prominent foreign policy wins for the Trump team with Saudi's Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, known colloquially as MBS.
November 24, 2020 Pompeo fires back at 'dead wrong' Mattis criticism of 'America First' foreign policy Secretary of State Mike Pompeo dismissed former Defense Secretary Jim Mattis' criticism of the Trump administration's “America First” foreign policy approach as "dead wrong" on Tuesday.
November 24, 2020 Cotton slams Obama-Biden 'A-Team' for past foreign policy failures Sen. Tom Cotton, R-Ark., on Tuesday took aim at former Obama administration officials who are going to be part of the incoming Biden administration, saying that reporters were “swooning” over an “A-Team” who he said presided over “absolute chaos” abroad.
November 24, 2020 After joining Burisma, Hunter Biden requested meetings with Antony Blinken: State Dept. emails New Secretary of State pick Antony Blinken has a long-standing relationship with President-elect Joe Biden going back to their days in the Obama administration, but State Department emails revealed that during that time Blinken appeared to have made a connection with Hunter Biden as well.
November 24, 2020 Biden's national security adviser pick Jake Sullivan touted Hillary Clinton's Libya debacle President-elect Joe Biden on Monday tapped Jacob Sullivan to be America's next national security adviser, but it remains to be seen if the former top Hillary Clinton adviser, who championed the ill-fated unraveling of Libya almost a decade ago, will take heed of those lessons learned.
November 24, 2020 Biden secretary of state pick Blinken opposed terrorist label for Iran's Revolutionary Guard Antony Blinken, President-elect Joe Biden’s pick for secretary of state, opposed designating the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corp (IRGC) a foreign terrorist organization out of fears it would lead to blowback -- a potential sign of the softer stance a Biden administration is expected to take toward Iran.
November 24, 2020 Media obsesses over Antony Blinken's guitar skills after Biden announces him as Secretary of State nominee President-elect Biden announced on Monday that Antony Blinken would become his nominee for Secretary of State, but his apparent musical talents are getting plenty of fanfare among journalists.
November 23, 2020 Rashida Tlaib accused of anti-Semitism for reaction to Biden's Jewish Sec of State nominee President-elect Biden announced Antony Blinken as his nominee to head the State Department
November 20, 2020 Organization of American States warns of sham elections in socialist Venezuela The international Organization of American States (OAS) has called on its 35-member nations to reject the parliamentary elections planned by Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro next month on Dec. 6.