Deb Riechmann

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US sanctions both sides in South Sudan conflict

Deb Riechmann · May 6, 2014 7:15 pm

International Monetary Fund (IMF) Managing Director Christine LaGarde makes a statement about sanctions leveled against Russia, during a news conference following an IMF Executive Board meeting at IMF Headquarters in Washington, Wednesday, April 30, 2014. LaGarde announced that the IMF board has approved a two-year, $17 billion loan package for Ukraine. (AP Photo/Cliff Owen)

IMF board approves $17 billion for Ukraine

Deb Riechmann · April 30, 2014 10:36 pm

Afghan National Army (ANA) helicopters deploy soldiers during a military exercise on the outskirts of Kabul, Afghanistan, Wednesday, April 30, 2014. The Afghan National Security Forces depend exclusively on billions of dollars in funding from the United States and its allies, money that is now at risk after President Hamid Karzai's refusal to sign a security agreement to keep a small U.S. force of trainers in the country after the NATO-led coalition ends its mission and withdraws at the end of the year. (AP Photo/Massoud Hossaini)

National Security

US gen: Corruption is top threat in Afghanistan

Deb Riechmann · April 30, 2014 8:04 pm

Afghan national army soldiers walk past the palace of the late King Amanullah Khan, which was destroyed during the civil war in early 1990s, in Kabul, Afghanistan, Sunday, April 27, 2014. (AP Photo/Rahmat Gul)

US auditor: Corruption threatens Afghan progress

Deb Riechmann · April 30, 2014 4:00 am

This undated image provided by the U.S. Army shows Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl. The nearly five-year effort to free the only American soldier held captive in Afghanistan is scattered among numerous federal agencies with a loosely organized group of people working on it mostly part time, according to two members of Congress and military officials involved in the effort. An ever-shrinking U.S. military presence in Afghanistan has re-focused attention on efforts to bring home Bergdahl, who has been held by the Taliban since June 30, 2009. (AP Photo/U.S. Army)

National Security

AP sources: Work to free US soldier disorganized

Deb Riechmann · April 24, 2014 7:27 pm

FILE - This Nov. 9, 2011, file artist rendering by courtroom artist Janet Hamlin, reviewed by the U.S. military, shows Abd al Rahim al-Nashiri during his military commissions arraignment at the Guantanamo Bay detention center in Guantanamo, Cuba. U.S. prosecutors must turn over never-revealed details about the time a Guantanamo Bay detainee spent in secret CIA prisons after his arrest in connection with the deadly attack on the USS Cole in Yemen, according to a military judge's order released Tuesday, April 22, 2014. The five-page order was a victory for defense lawyers representing Abd al Rahim al-Nashiri, who is accused of orchestrating the Oct. 12, 2000, bombing of the USS Cole in the Yemeni port of Aden. (AP Photo/Janet Hamlin, File)

National Security

Govt must turn over info on CIA prisons to defense

Deb Riechmann · April 22, 2014 11:26 pm

US sanctions government official in Zimbabwe

Deb Riechmann · April 17, 2014 4:09 pm

US levies more sanctions over Crimea takeover

Deb Riechmann · April 11, 2014 9:01 pm

Afghan election workers carry a ballot box at an election commission office in Jalalabad east of Kabul, Afghanistan, Wednesday, April 2, 2014. Eight Afghan presidential candidates are campaigning for the third presidential election. Elections will take place on April 5, 2014. (AP Photo/Rahmat Gul)

Afghan election could reset US-Kabul relations

Deb Riechmann · April 3, 2014 7:43 pm

Power: US opposes Palestinian moves to statehood

Deb Riechmann · April 2, 2014 3:35 pm

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry speaks during a media conference after a meeting of the NATO-Ukraine Commission at NATO headquarters in Brussels on Tuesday, April 1, 2014. NATO foreign ministers begin a two-day meeting on Tuesday in which they will discuss, among other issues, the situation in Ukraine. (AP Photo/Virginia Mayo)

Congress sends Obama bill to aid Ukraine

Deb Riechmann · April 1, 2014 11:32 pm

Congress to pass aid Ukraine, sanction Russia

Deb Riechmann · April 1, 2014 10:12 pm