Matthew Lee

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National Security

Kerry urges Afghan candidates to end dispute

Matthew Lee · August 7, 2014 6:29 pm

Secretary of State John Kerry has arrived in Afghanistan on an unannounced visit to try to calm tensions between the country's two feuding presidential candidates. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

National Security

John Kerry in Afghanistan to meet feuding candidates

Matthew Lee · August 7, 2014 1:20 pm

Israeli Defense Minister, Moshe Ya'alon, left, and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, center, attend the cabinet meeting at the defense ministry in Tel Aviv, Israel, Thursday, July 31, 2014. (AP Photo/Dan Balilty, pool)

Netanyahu to US: Don’t second guess me on Hamas

Matthew Lee · August 2, 2014 9:10 am

National Security

US cites ‘outrageous,’ ‘barbaric’ actions in Gaza

Matthew Lee · August 2, 2014 5:04 am

Secretary of State John Kerry, right, and Ukrainian Foreign Minister Pavlo Klimkin shake hands at the State Department in Washington, Tuesday, July 29, 2014, during a news conference. The United States says there's been "no shred of evidence" that Russia is willing to help end the violence and bloodshed between the Ukraine separatists backed by Moscow and the government in Kiev. (AP Photo/Cliff Owen)

National Security

Kerry shrugs off Israeli criticism

Matthew Lee · July 29, 2014 4:39 pm

Ukraine Foreign Minister Pavlo Klimkin answers questions during an interview at the Ukrainian Embassy in Washington, Monday, July 28, 2014. Klimkin says pro-Russian separatists are continuing to try to manipulate the wreckage of the Malaysian airliner that the United States and others have accused the rebels of shooting down.(AP Photo/J. David Ake)

Ukraine: Rebels still manipulating crash site

Matthew Lee · July 28, 2014 8:40 pm

Glitch crashes global US passport, visa operations

Matthew Lee · July 24, 2014 1:44 am

A piece of the crashed Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 lies in the grass near the village of Hrabove, eastern Ukraine, Sunday, July 20, 2014. Rebels in eastern Ukraine took control Sunday of the bodies recovered from downed Malaysia Airlines Flight 17, and the U.S. and European leaders demanded that Russian President Vladimir Putin make sure rebels give international investigators full access to the crash site.(AP Photo/Evgeniy Maloletka)

US working on case against Russia on downed plane

Matthew Lee · July 21, 2014 7:11 am

A pro-Russian fighter guards the crash site of Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 near the village of Hrabove, eastern Ukraine, Sunday, July 20, 2014. Rebels in eastern Ukraine took control Sunday of the bodies recovered from downed Malaysia Airlines Flight 17, and the U.S. and European leaders demanded that Russian President Vladimir Putin make sure rebels give international investigators full access to the crash site.(AP Photo/Evgeniy Maloletka)

National Security

US outlines case against Russia on downed plane

Matthew Lee · July 21, 2014 12:43 am

People search a wheat field for remains in the area of the crash site of Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 near the village of Hrabove, eastern Ukraine, Sunday, July 20, 2014. Armed rebels forced emergency workers to hand over all 196 bodies recovered from the Malaysia Airlines crash site and had them loaded Sunday onto refrigerated train cars bound for a rebel-held city, Ukrainian officials and monitors said. (AP Photo/Vadim Ghirda)

US turns up heat on Russia over downed plane

Matthew Lee · July 20, 2014 3:10 pm

US hits Norwegian citizen with terror sanctions

Matthew Lee · July 15, 2014 3:09 pm

Kerry asks Central America for help on immigration

Matthew Lee · July 1, 2014 3:36 pm