The U.S. State Department dismissed increasingly aggressive rhetoric from Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan directed at America as something Washington is “used to,” following a threat from Erdogan that U.S. forces would soon experience the “Ottoman slap.”
The Trump administration issued a statement Thursday supporting the Venezuelan opposition’s rejection of a sudden presidential election called by dictator Nicolás Maduro, excoriating Maduro for not being “courageous enough” to hold a free and fair election.
The deadline for Russia and the United States to meet the nuclear warhead reductions mandated by 2011’s Treaty on Measures for the Further Reduction and Limitation of Strategic Offensive Arms (New START) arrived Monday.
Speaking at a conference on chemical weapons in Paris on Tuesday, Secretary of State Rex Tillerson said there is reason to believe Syrian dictator Bashar Assad has resumed using chemical weapons against his own people. He said Russia was to blame for failing to confiscate all of Assad’s weapons of mass destruction as promised.
During a press briefing on Thursday, State Department Spokeswoman Heather Nauert confirmed that the US is suspending security assistance to Pakistan until takes “decisive action” against groups like the Afghan Taliban and the Haqqani Network. Nauert said, “Today, we can confirm
Both President Donald Trump and the U.S. State Department responded on Friday to widespread protests against the Islamic dictatorship in Iran, urging Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khamenei to avoid human rights abuses against peaceful dissidents.
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The State Department held a special press briefing Thursday with Brett McGurk, special presidential envoy for the Global Coalition to Defeat ISIS, and spokeswoman Heather Nauert. The focus was the 2017 successes against the Islamic State (ISIS).
The State Department and President Trump have maintained a united front in the face of reports that Secretary of State Rex Tillerson is on his way out.
The State Department called on the socialist regime in Venezuela to release Joshua Holt on Tuesday, a 25-year-old U.S. citizen whose health has deteriorated considerably in the year and a half that he has spent behind bars on highly suspicious charges of weapons stockpiling.
CBS News reported on Tuesday that evidence existed that American embassy staff in Uzbekistan may have suffered similar symptoms to those targeted by unexplained acoustic attacks in Cuba. State Department spokeswoman Heather Nauert fervently denied that any incident had occurred in Tashkent, the Uzbek capital.
The State Department offered support for Crown Prince Muhammad bin Salman’s ongoing crackdown on huge swaths of the Saudi Arabian power structure Tuesday, echoing, albeit less wholeheartedly, endorsements by the White House.
TEL AVIV – Saudi Arabia pushed the U.S. into pressuring Israel to delay the “Greater Jerusalem” bill that would see the connection of satellite settlements to the capital, the Hebrew news site Ynet reported Tuesday.
The U.S. State Department reiterated that it supports “more voices, not fewer” in international media in response to a string of legal actions against journalists and a particularly gruesome murder in Iraq, where Baghdad appears to be attempting to shut down all Kurdish voices.
TEL AVIV – U.S. pressure on Israel resulted in Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu postponing an initial vote on a bill that would annex 19 settlements surrounding Jerusalem to the capital.
State Department spokeswoman Heather Nauert told reporters on Thursday that the Trump administration expects Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad to exit politics at some point during the nation’s civil war, telling a reporter the Assad problem “will take care of itself.”
State Department Spokeswoman Heather Nauert continued efforts to tamp down the flames threatening to ignite northern Iraq in war Friday.
State Department Spokeswoman Heather Nauert gave an update Tuesday on the difficult situation in which American diplomats find themselves in Iraq as two of their putative allies settle into an armed face-off that threatens to escalate into yet another chapter in the country’s 14-year civil war.
President Donald Trump and his State Department issued their first official responses to the latest flare-up of inter-ethnic violence outside Kirkuk, Iraq, in the fallout from Iraqi Kurdistan’s controversial independence referendum Monday afternoon.
State Department spokeswoman Heather Nauert told reporters Tuesday that the agency’s lawyers “would certainly … be looking at” the possibility that, in failing to prevent physical attacks on American diplomats and their families, Cuba may have violated the 1961 Vienna Convention.
The State Department made clear Friday that the United States will not recognize Iraqi Kurdistan’s referendum on independence held Monday to separate from Iraq.
U.S. State Department spokeswoman Heather Nauert raised the number of Americans injured by unknown acoustic “incidents” while working for the department in Cuba to 21 on Tuesday, warning that doctors may continue to diagnose more.
The Department of State would like to include North Korea in ongoing efforts toward a “diplomatic solution” to force the hereditary Kim dictatorship to dismantle its small nuclear arsenal, spokeswoman Heather Nauert indicated Thursday.
U.S. diplomats will take China and Russia “at their word” on pledges to uphold sanctions against North Korea, State Department Spokeswoman Heather Nauert told reporters Thursday.
Former Fox News personality and current State Department spokeswoman Heather Nauert told reporters at the State Department daily briefing Tuesday that Secretary of State Rex Tillerson was “taking a little time off” when reporters asked about inconsistencies in his published schedule and current status.
Women now occupy the top spokesperson jobs in the White House and three key government agencies after President Trump chose Sarah Huckabee Sanders to replace Sean Spicer as press secretary.
