Matthew Lee

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Kerry: Syria deal must be in binding UN resolution

Matthew Lee · September 10, 2013 6:35 pm

Syria vote tests pro-Israel groups’ influence

Matthew Lee · September 9, 2013 6:32 am

US restores some aid to Mali cut after coup

Matthew Lee · September 6, 2013 10:40 pm

Lebanese pro-Syrian regime supporters hold placards as they gather during a demonstration against a possible military strike in Syria, near the U.S. Embassy in Aukar, east of Beirut, Lebanon, Friday, Sept. 6, 2013. The prospect of a U.S.-led strike against Syria has raised concerns of potential retaliation from the Assad regime or its allies. The State Department ordered nonessential U.S. diplomats to leave Lebanon over security concerns and urged private American citizens to depart as well. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla)

US orders diplomats out of Lebanon

Matthew Lee · September 6, 2013 7:54 pm

US hits back at Putin ‘liar’ comment about Kerry

Matthew Lee · September 5, 2013 6:47 pm

FILE - This Aug. 23, 2013 file photo shows an Egyptian walking between armored vehicles blocking Tahrir Square in Cairo, Egypt. U.S. officials say President Barack Obamaâs top national security aides have recommended that the U.S. suspend hundreds of millions of dollars in military and economic assistance to Egypt in response to the Egyptian militaryâs ouster of the countryâs first democratically elected leader. (AP Photo/Amr Nabil, File)

APNewsBreak: Obama weighs Egypt aid suspension

Matthew Lee · September 4, 2013 9:00 pm

US names temporary envoy to Egypt

Matthew Lee · August 30, 2013 4:10 pm

FILE - In this Aug. 6, 2013, photo, a Bahraini police officer sits in a police car at a new checkpoint near the U.S. Embassy in Manama, Bahrain. Eighteen of the 19 U.S. embassies and consulates that were closed in the Middle East and Africa because of a terrorist threat will reopen on Sunday or Monday, the State Department said Friday, Aug. 9, 2013. (AP Photo/Hasan Jamali)

US to reopen 18 diplomatic missions after threat

Matthew Lee · August 10, 2013 8:33 am

President Barack Obama gestures during his news conference in the East Room of the White House in Washington, Friday, Aug. 9, 2013. The president said he'll work with Congress to change the oversight of some of the National Security Agency's controversial surveillance programs and name a new panel of outside experts to review technologies. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

Obama cites ‘mixed success’ in dealing with Putin

Matthew Lee · August 10, 2013 7:46 am

President Barack Obama gestures during his news conference in the East Room of the White House in Washington, Friday, Aug. 9, 2013. The president said he'll work with Congress to change the oversight of some of the National Security Agency's controversial surveillance programs and name a new panel of outside experts to review technologies. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

Obama laments ‘backward’ thinking by Russians

Matthew Lee · August 9, 2013 9:01 pm

Pakistani investigators collect evidence at the site of a bomb attack in Quetta, Pakistan, Thursday, Aug. 8, 2013. A suicide bomber attacked a funeral for a policeman in southwestern Pakistan on Thursday, killing tens of people, including a senior police officer, and wounding over 60, police said. (AP Photo/Arshad Butt)

US orders diplomats out of Lahore, Pakistan

Matthew Lee · August 9, 2013 4:52 am

FILE - In this Aug. 6, 2013 file photo, Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., left, and by Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C. listen during a news conference in Cairo, Egypt. The US is sending confused message about Egypt. McCain gets OK from White House to go to Egypt, then goes and holds news conference spouting views contrary to administration. Local media in Egypt reporting that McCain and el-Sissi had confrontations over the issues. Meanwhile deputy Secretary of State Bill Burns is in Egypt, forbidden to talk to Morsi, while meeting with minor Brotherhood officials and the military. This after Kerry said the military was ârestoring democracyâ by ousting democratically elected president. (AP Photo/Amr Nabil, File)

US messaging mess in Egypt complicates diplomacy

Matthew Lee · August 8, 2013 8:45 pm