Tag: State Department

This image from a video released by the Department of Defense shows U.S. Marines at Abbey Gate before a suicide bomber struck outside Hamid Karzai International Airport on Aug. 26, 2021, in Kabul, Afghanistan.

There’s a $10M reward for info on last year’s deadly Afghan airport bombing

Mike Brest · August 26, 2022 7:11 pm

UN diplomat avoids rape charge due to diplomatic immunity, police say

Misty Severi · August 23, 2022 3:35 pm

The consequences of Biden’s chaotic withdrawal from Afghanistan are still being felt

Jessica Hayes · August 19, 2022 12:00 am

US will be ‘pursuing’ prisoner swap with Russia, Blinken says

Mike Brest · August 5, 2022 5:38 pm

Brittney Griner trial: Russian prosecutors demand lengthy prison sentence for WNBA star

Barnini Chakraborty · August 4, 2022 10:00 am

Beltway Confidential

The Biden administration is shocked that the Taliban are untrustworthy

Zachary Faria · August 3, 2022 8:03 pm

Osama bin Laden, left, and Ayman al Zawahiri are seen in October 2001.

National Security

State Department warns of ‘anti-American violence’ following US killing of Zawahiri

Jerry Dunleavy · August 3, 2022 3:19 pm

WNBA star and two-time Olympic gold medalist Brittney Griner is escorted to a courtroom for a hearing in Khimki, just outside Moscow, Russia, on Monday, June 27, 2022. Griner is to appear in court Monday for a preliminary hearing ahead of her trial.

‘Loaded up with drugs’: Trump slams possible prisoner swap with Russia

Mike Brest · August 1, 2022 3:01 pm

An Afghan boy looks through a locked door, as he waits his turn to receive food supplies during a distribution of humanitarian aid for families in need, in Kabul, Afghanistan, Wednesday, Feb. 16, 2022.

Beltway Confidential

Visa program failures leave Afghan allies vulnerable

Beth Bailey · August 1, 2022 10:00 am

Secretary of State Antony Blinken.

Blinken ‘pressed’ Lavrov to accept prisoner swap proposal in conversation

Mike Brest · July 29, 2022 5:29 pm

Lavrov delivered the rebuke to Secretary of State Rex Tillerson by phone after canceling a high-level diplomatic summit in Moscow that had been scheduled for Friday. (AP Photo/Pavel Golovkin)

Russian foreign minister agrees to discuss prisoner swap with US

Mike Brest · July 29, 2022 2:17 pm

Griner testifies in Russian court that she wasn’t read her rights when arrested

Mike Brest · July 27, 2022 4:02 pm