July 7, 2020 Pompeo warns of potential restriction of Chinese TikTok app; US users may be ceding info to 'Chinese Communists' Secretary of State Mike Pompeo responded to former Obama administration National Security Adviser Susan Rice, after the potential 2020 Democratic vice-presidential candidate slammed him for appearing to be one of what she called "sycophants and weaklings" who purportedly refuses to properly advise President Trump.
July 6, 2020 American student locked in Egyptian prison for over a year without trial is freed, returns to US An American medical student imprisoned in Egypt for more than a year returned to the United States on Monday, the State Department said.
July 4, 2020 State Department official tells US companies to 'be aware' of Chinese brands using slave labor Under Secretary of State Keith Krach warned on Saturday about the potential for international commerce to support brands benefiting from slave labor in China.
July 2, 2020 House passes bill to sanction Chinese entities that menace Hong Kong, banks that work with them The House of Representatives on Wednesday night passed a bill to impose sanctions on entities that help violate Hong Kong's autonomy and financial institutions that do business with them, a response to the passage of a "national security" law that tightened Beijing's grip on Hong Kong.
July 1, 2020 China caught using malware to spy on Uighurs as a part of campaign to curb the Muslim population China’s campaign to restrict the Uighur population reportedly started as far back as 2013 using malware technologies, a U.S. based mobile intelligence company revealed Wednesday.
July 1, 2020 China takes aim at 4 US media companies, demanding staff, business info China has demanded information regarding staff and business operations from four major U.S. media outlets in retaliation to the U.S. government previously requesting similar information from China state owned media agencies.
July 1, 2020 The rise and fall of Syria’s first lady: Why the US is going after Asma Assad? For the first time ever, Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's British wife Asma has been targeted with economic restrictions of her own.
June 30, 2020 Man who beheaded US journalist Daniel Pearl to be freed from Pakistani prison The British-born man convicted in the 2002 murder of Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl is likely to walk out of jail a free man this week following a surprising ruling by Pakistan's supreme court.Â
June 25, 2020 Pompeo says if UN doesn't extend arms embargo on Iran, US will seek sanctions Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said in a press conference on Wednesday that if the U.N. Security Council doesn't agree to extend the arms embargo against Iran, then the U.S. will seek to "snap back" multilateral sanctions on the regime.
June 24, 2020 Pompeo increases bounty on new, shadowy ISIS leader to $10M as rumors of his death in Syria swirl Almost nine months after the death of Islamic State (ISIS) leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi by U.S. Special Forces, it was rumored Tuesday morning that his successor -- the shadowy Abu Ibrahim al-Quraishi -- had also been taken out, this time in an American-led drone strike in the northern pocket of war-torn Syria at some point earlier this week.