It has long been held that embassies should be treated as “off-limits” to other nations. Yet in a single week, two governments – both long-established democracies – stand accused of violating, in different ways, the laws surrounding foreign diplomatic missions. First, on April 1, 2024, Iran’s embassy in Damascus was bombed, presumably by Israel, killing More
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Iran’s brazen attack directly targeting Israel on Saturday means that the one thing President Biden most feared and desperately sought to avert in the wake of the 7 October Hamas attack has happened – an escalation of the conflict to the wider region. For the US president, the tightrope he was walking on the Israel-Gaza […]
Iran's unprecedented weekend attack on Israel has changed the US political calculus in the region.
NEW DELHI – Devyani Khobragade, the Indian Foreign Service officer who was at the center of a diplomatic row between New Delhi and Washington D.C. little over a decade ago, is now in the middle of another storm. Despite the bad taste she left the […]
Myanmar community members applied to the courts to bar the diplomat from attending the Association of Southeast Asian Nations.
After a bill that would force the sale of the company passed the House, diplomats from the Chinese Embassy met with Hill offices to push talking points defending the app.
China summoned Japanese and Philippine diplomats on Friday to express dissatisfaction over negative comments about it aired during a summit of the leaders of the United States, Japan and Philippines, the foreign ministry said. The United States and its allies, including Japan, have been building up their militaries to counter
Turkish and American top diplomats have discussed on the phone the latest developments in Gaza amid fears of a fresh escalation between Israel and Iran.
The United States on Thursday restricted movements of its diplomats in Israel over security fears, the embassy said, as concerns mount of Iranian retaliation over an Israeli strike. “Out of an abundance of caution, US government employees and their family members are restricted from personal travel” outside the Tel Aviv, Jerusalem and Beersheeva areas “until […]
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Thanks to President Biden’s pressure on Israel, our principal ally in the Middle East is delaying actions in the Gaza Strip to finish off Hamas terrorists and responding to Iran’s direct attack.