Politics May 18 WATCH: Preparations for winter needed now for Ukraine’s refugees, migration body says. By News Desk
Politics Mar 16 WATCH: House Foreign Affairs committee holds hearing on possible Russian war crimes in Ukraine The House Foreign Affairs committee holds hearing Wednesday on possible Russian war crimes in Ukraine. By News Desk and Associated Press
Politics Feb 16 WATCH: House Foreign Affairs hearing on the Black diaspora and strengthening investment abroad The House Foreign Affairs held a hearing Wednesday on the Black diaspora and strengthening investment abroad. By Associated Press
Politics May 18 WATCH: Fears of Taliban conquering Kabul are overblown, says special envoy Khalilzad Predictions that the Taliban will quickly overrun Afghan government forces and conquer Kabul once U.S. and coalition forces have fully withdrawn are unduly pessimistic, Washington's special envoy to Afghanistan said Tuesday. By Robert Burns, Associated Press
Politics Aug 28 House readies contempt resolution as Pompeo defies subpoenas House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Eliot Engel of New York said Friday that the panel will prepare a contempt resolution for what he called Pompeo's "unprecedented record of obstruction and defiance."… By Mary Clare Jalonick, Associated Press
May 22 Watch 5:31 In besieged Idlib, young Syrians say Trump is the only person who can save them In Syria’s Idlib province, residents fear the worst humanitarian crisis in eight years of war. A deal signed last year was supposed to make it a demilitarized buffer zone, but Syrian and Russian forces have unleashed an onslaught, catching millions… Continue watching
Dec 06 Do Trump’s anti-Muslim retweets put Americans at risk? House Democrats press Tillerson for an answer By Richard Lardner, Associated Press In a letter sent Wednesday to Tillerson, the 20 members of the Foreign Affairs Committee said they are extremely troubled over Trump's retweets last week of inflammatory videos from a fringe British political group that purported to show violence being… Continue reading
Sep 12 WATCH: U.S. warns China, Russia must comply with sanctions on North Korea By Erica R. Hendry and Matthew Pennington, Associated Press State Department and Treasury Department officials testified to the House Foreign Affairs Committee about the U.S. pressure campaign against North Korea's rapid progress toward a nuclear weapon that could strike America. Continue reading
Jun 29 Clinton says it’s ‘time to move on’ from Benghazi. Republicans say it’s unlikely By Matthew Daly, Associated Press Hillary Clinton says it's "time to move on" after a congressional report on the deadly 2012 Benghazi attacks accused the Obama administration of lethal mistakes, but produced no new evidence pointing to wrongdoing by the former secretary of state. Continue reading
Apr 01 How getting women involved can combat extremism and save lives By Jamille Bigio, Council on Foreign Relations As increasingly costly, disruptive and deadly conflicts unfold around the world, a House hearing last week highlighted that when women participate in negotiations, the resulting agreement is 35 percent more likely to last at least 15 years. Continue reading