Tag: State Department

By ROMINA RUIZ-GOIRIENA and MARTHA MENDOZAAssociated PressGUATEMALA CITYA team of 200 U.S. Marines began patrolling Guatemala’s western coast this week in an unprecedented operation to beat drug traffickers in the Central America region, a U.S. military spokesman said Wednesday. The

Secretary of State Hillary Clinton asked Egypt to keep open communication with Israel after the new Cairo government deployed forces to the Sinai Peninsula, the State Department said Thursday. Clinton spoke by telephone Wednesday with Egyptian Foreign Minister Mohamed Kamel

It wasn’t enough that Barack Obama was so narcissistic that the official White House Website actually inserted his name into the biographies of former presidents. That was to ensure that all Americans would be aware of the Chosen One’s spiritual

(AP) UK bank settles Iran money probe in NY for $340MBy MICHAEL VIRTANENAssociated PressALBANY, N.Y.A British bank accused of scheming with the Iranian government to launder billions of dollars will be subject to two years of monitoring at its New

When Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez told reporters that a former U.S. Marine had been arrested Aug. 4 for entering Venezuela illegally from Colombia, he gave no proof that the man was, in fact, a former Marine or that the man

Walking into the Ntarama Church outside Kigali and witnessing the scenes of mass slaughter that are all around you, I instantly began to gag and ran outside lest I be sick in consecrated ground. I walked in several more times

In 2008, the U.S. placed a ban on financial institutions doing business with Iran or Iranian firms. Prior to the all-out ban, business with Iranian firms was allowed, but only if it could be proven that the financial dealings “were

Apple has removed an app that would have allowed users to watch the Hezbollah channel Al-Manar TV on their iPod, iPhone, or iPad, and that’s good news; the channel is a mouthpiece for anti-Israel, anti-West, and anti-American propaganda that is

As Congress rushed to finish business Thursday, both houses unanimously passed a law designed to modify the Stop Trading on Congressional Knowledge Act of 2012. Rather than solve a national security problem created in the act, however, yesterday’s action merely

The State Department official is accused of being connected to a vast foreign conspiracy, hostile to America.  The official denies it, as the Establishment rallies around the accused official. Indeed, Establishmentarians not only dismiss any possibility of the official’s guilt

Remember what Sen. John McCain said about Huma Abedin yesterday? “Recently, it has been alleged that Huma, a Muslim American, is part of a nefarious conspiracy to harm the United States by unduly influencing U.S. foreign policy at the Department

How much does Barack Obama hate Israel and want to throw her under the bus? Here’s how much; the Obama administration not only excluded Israel from a new counterterrorism forum in Spain, it didn’t even mention Israel in its remarks.

Pakistan and the United States have made “progress” in talks on ending Islamabad’s seven-month blockade of NATO supplies travelling overland into Afghanistan, officials said Tuesday. The news emerged as Pakistan’s new Prime Minister Raja Pervez Ashraf called a meeting of

News that the U.S. State Department issued a visa to Hani Nour Eldin, a member of Egypt’s Gama’a al-Islamiya or Islamic Group, has sparked a roaring controversy over the circumstances and appropriateness of the decision. On June 24, Representative Peter

In April, Breitbart News reported that the White House had hosted members of Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood–the radical, anti-woman, anti-American, anti-Israel and pro-terror organization busy taking power in the grim aftermath of the Arab Spring. Now, the Obama administration has gone

A Syrian air force colonel won political asylum after landing his MiG fighter in Jordan, as a watchdog reported the deadliest day of fighting in Syria since the battered April ceasefire. The pilot, who reportedly flew his jet under the

By BASSEM MROUEAssociated PressBEIRUTAngry crowds blocked U.N. observers from reaching an embattled rebel-held town in Syria on Tuesday, hurling stones and metal rods at the monitors’ vehicles. Their vehicles came under fire as they drove away from Haffa, but the

Every American high school student knows, or should know, that President Ronald Reagan went to the Brandenburg Gate in West Berlin on this date in 1987. The President said: “If you seek liberalization, open this gate…Mr. Gorbachev,tear down this wall.”