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Secretary of State Antony Blinken plans to visit China in the coming weeks for talks with top officials, possibly including President Xi Jinping, people familiar with the matter said, as the US looks ...
Russia unilaterally stopped participating in the New START treaty in February.
“At this time, Israel does not meet all of the VWP eligibility requirements,” a State Department official told Al Arabiya English.

The national security interests of Washington are “interwoven in this region,” the official said.
“Treaties aren’t effective when one party lies and cheats,” Senator Marco Rubio said.

Michael Lawhorn, a US Central Command (CENTCOM) spokesperson, told Al Arabiya English that the military was working on several options and discussing these options with regional partners, “who remain as concerned as we are about the repeated and unjustified threats, illegal seizures, and attacks throughout the region’s waterways.”
“Our nation is safer and more secure, and our partnerships more robust, due to her leadership,” the US Secretary of State said.

“The Arab capitals’ firm conclusion is that the [Biden] administration has no problem with their normalization policy,” the former US special envoy for Syria said.
US President Joe Biden’s administration plans to send $500 million worth of weapons aid to Taiwan using the same emergency authority that has been used more than 35 times for Ukraine, a source ...
“It is unacceptable that a US government program, which makes the United States and its allies safer, provides funds to remediate the victims of terrorism, and generates income for the United States in a cost-effective manner has been allowed to languish,” they said.
The Pentagon said Wednesday that the State Department had approved the sale of six MH-60R multi-mission helicopters and other equipment to Norway for an estimated cost of $1 billion.The Government of ...

US President Joe Biden intends to nominate Herro Mustafa Garg as the next ambassador to Egypt, the White House announced on Wednesday.Mustafa Garg, a career diplomat, served as the US ambassador to ...

The US has only responded three times, according to CENTCOM, which raises a question of deterrence.

The United States is working to assist 44 Americans who want to leave Afghanistan and several others detained by Taliban authorities, Secretary of State Antony Blinken said Thursday.Blinken was ...
Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador on Tuesday forcefully rejected criticism of his government’s record on human rights, describing reports of official abuses made in a new US State ...

Protecting Ukraine is not “vital” for the United States, likely presidential candidate Ron DeSantis said, underscoring that the top two Republican contenders don’t see Russia’s invasion of Kyiv as a ...

All five Central Asian nations abstained or did not vote last week on a UN General Assembly resolution that demanded that Moscow pull out of Ukraine.

The House Foreign Affairs Committee will hold a hearing next Tuesday with top officials on China policy to identify gaps in pursuing what it called a “more holistic approach” to countering aggression ...
“The US is quite engaged and quite focused in the Middle East,” said the official, who was speaking on condition of anonymity.
Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer said Thursday that the Senate will vote to repeal two decades-old measures giving open-ended approval for military action in Iraq, raising the hopes of a ...

The US State Department has approved the potential sale of long-range missiles, rockets and launchers to Poland in a deal valued at up to $10 billion, the Pentagon said on Tuesday.Poland has been on a ...

The United States’ new ambassador to Russia, Lynne Tracy, has arrived in Moscow, the US embassy said Thursday.Tracy most recently was the ambassador to Armenia and served as the deputy chief of ...

Combating Hezbollah’s influence and shoring up Lebanon’s stability and security remain key objectives for the Biden administration, the official said.

US Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen, who held her first face-to-face meeting with her Chinese counterpart Wednesday, will soon travel to China, Washington said, as the two countries seek to boost ...
Republicans have launched an investigation into the chaotic US withdrawal from Afghanistan that sparked a lightning takeover of the war-ravaged country by the Taliban and the death of 13 American ...