Deb Riechmann

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US sanctions leadership of terrorist group

Deb Riechmann · August 27, 2014 4:06 pm

US sanctions Islamic State group’s spokesman

Deb Riechmann · August 18, 2014 4:02 pm

President Barack Obama listens to a question during his news conference at US African Leaders Summit, Wednesday, Aug. 6, 2014 at the State Department in Washington. Obama and dozens of African leaders opened talks Wednesday on two key issues that threaten to disrupt economic progress on the continent: security and government corruption. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

Obama: US sanctions are straining Russian economy

Deb Riechmann · August 7, 2014 1:19 am

Secretary of State John Kerry, right, looks to Mauritanian President Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz, as he speaks to media at the State Department, in Washington, Monday, Aug. 4, 2014, before a bilateral meeting at the US Africa Summit. Nearly 50 African heads of state are gathering in Washington for an unprecedented summit. (AP Photo/ Evan Vucci)

Business, Ebola discussed at US-Africa summit

Deb Riechmann · August 4, 2014 9:57 pm

AP-GfK poll: Public ready to close book on 2 wars

Deb Riechmann · August 1, 2014 7:43 pm

FILE - Int this Dec. 8, 1997, file photo, U.S. President Ronald Reagan, right, shakes hands with Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev after the two leaders signed the Intermediate Range Nuclear Forces Treaty to eliminate intermediate-range missiles during a ceremony in the White House East Room in Washington. In an escalation of tensions, the Obama administration accused Russia on July 28, 2014, of conducting tests in violation of a 1987 nuclear missile treaty, calling the breach "a very serious matter" and going public with allegations that have simmered for some time. The treaty confrontation comes at a highly strained time between President Barack Obama and Russian President Vladimir Putin over Russia's intervention in Ukraine and Russia's grant of asylum to National Security Agency leaker Edward Snowden.(AP Photo/Bob Daugherty, File)

US accuses Russia of violating 1987 missile treaty

Deb Riechmann · July 29, 2014 9:56 pm

This second page of a four page document released by the U.S. State Department in Washington, July 27, 2014 shows a satellite image that purports to shows self propelled artillery only found in Russian military units, on the Russian side of the border, oriented in the direction of a Ukrainian military unit within Ukraine. The United States says the images back up its claims that rockets have been fired from Russia into eastern Ukraine and heavy artillery for separatists has also crossed the border. (AP Photo/U.S. State Department)

National Security

US: Russia has fired rockets into Ukraine

Deb Riechmann · July 28, 2014 9:32 am

FILE - This May 25, 2014, file photo shows President Barack Obama as he is briefed by Marine General Joseph Dunford, commander of the US-led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF), right, after arriving at Bagram Air Field for an unannounced visit north of Kabul, Afghanistan. The Afghan election crisis and unraveling of Iraq has lawmakers and others thinking President Barack Obama should re-think his decision to withdrawal virtually all U.S. troops from Afghanistan by the close of 2016. (AP Photo/ Evan Vucci, File)

National Security

Unease in Congress, region over Obama Afghan plan

Deb Riechmann · July 19, 2014 5:17 pm

FILE - This May 26, 2014 file photo shows Afghan President Hamid Karzai in New Delhi, India. Civilian assistance to Afghanistan was always slated to shrink with America's military footprint, but U.S. aid officials were caught off-guard when Congress, upset by testy relations with Afghan President Hamid Karzai, slashed civilian aid by 50 percent this year. War-weary lawmakers, content with the level of Afghan aid already in the pipeline, backed the cut, but officials with the U.S. Agency for International Development warn that reducing aid too quickly is risky. (AP Photo/Saurabh Das, File)

Afghan aid is dropping, but how fast is too fast?

Deb Riechmann · July 10, 2014 7:37 pm

US sending $22 million more to aid South Sudan

Deb Riechmann · July 10, 2014 5:04 pm

Treasury sanctions Hezbollah procurement network

Deb Riechmann · July 10, 2014 3:23 pm

US sanctions 3 firms for aiding Syrian government

Deb Riechmann · July 9, 2014 3:49 pm