WASHINGTON (AP) — From Syria to Somalia and across the Mideast down to Mali, looming U.S. budget cuts are creating potentially tough choices for American diplomacy.

The United States will slash up to $2.6 billion in global humanitarian aid, security funds and other international programs in some of the world’s most unstable regions if Congress cannot stave off automatic spending reductions by March 1 that are threatening nearly every federal agency in Washington.

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