Tag: U.S. State Department
‘Are you guys aware how isolated you are?’ reporter asks State Dept, of UN...
Teeing up the first question at the U.S. State Department's Dec. 11 press briefing, Matt Lee noted that the United States vetoed a U.N. Security Council resolution on Friday calling for a ceasefire. And U.S. Secretary...
US announces restrictions against Israeli, Palestinian ‘extremists’
“Violence in the West Bank this year is at levels not seen since the Second Intifada, and in recent weeks, an alarming surge in violent acts has driven this unwelcome record even higher,” said...
Historic statesman, who advised presidents, Henry Kissinger dead at 100
Alan Dershowitz first met Henry Kissinger in the mid-1960s. “We were both professors at Harvard, and his son and my son were elementary school classmates,” Dershowitz, an attorney, commentator and Harvard Law School professor...
David Satterfield appointed US envoy on Gaza humanitarian crisis
U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken referred to Ambassador David Satterfield on Oct. 3 as “a longtime colleague” and “extraordinary Foreign Service officer,” speaking during an event at Rice University in Houston, where Satterfield was then...
‘Examiner’ report: State Department funds group with ties to terror in Gaza
The Phoenix Center for Research and Field Studies—affiliated with the Islamic University of Gaza and which received a $90,000 grant from the U.S. State Department—has ties to two entities designed by the United States...
Blinken holds phone calls with Netanyahu, Abbas
U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken spoke on the phone with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Tuesday, according to Matthew Miller, spokesman for the U.S. State Department.
Blinken "reaffirmed the strength of the bilateral...
‘Sensitive’ State Dept. document runs in Tehran paper, as Foggy Bottom rebuffs Congress
House Foreign Affairs Committee leaders have expressed frustration that the U.S. State Department has been stonewalling Congress about details of the June suspension of Robert Malley as special envoy to Iran.
Now a newspaper with close ties...
House reps ‘frustrated’ with lack of transparency over Malley suspension
Robert Malley, the special representative for Iran suspended by U.S. State Department amid what is said to be an FBI investigation for mishandling classified documents, has landed a new gig in New Haven, Conn., while he...
US State Department to brief lawmakers on suspension of Iran envoy Malley
Details remain sketchy, but Robert Malley confirmed at the beginning of the month that the U.S. State Department had suspended him from his role as special envoy for Iran.
Malley, who as an undergraduate penned a 1980 Yale...
US State Department: Judicial reform will not affect Israel aid
The U.S. State Department stressed on Tuesday that the Biden Administration has no intention to slash aid to Israel following the passing into law by Israel's coalition of key judicial reform legislation.
Responding to a leading question by Said...