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State Dept. Requests Funds for Office to Close Gitmo

President Donald Trump’s State Department has requested $1.2 million to operate the now vacant office of the agency’s special envoy for shutting down the U.S. military prison in Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, despite the commander-in-chiefs campaign promise to keep the facility running.

GUANTANAMO BAY, CUBA - OCTOBER 22: (EDITORS NOTE: Image has been reviewed by the U.S. Mili

Fact Check: Four Major Holes In Rep. Adam Schiff’s Trump-Russia Conspiracy Theory

On Monday, Rep. Adam Schiff, the ranking Democrat on a House intelligence committee, delivered his opening statements at a committee hearing where he laid out the general case for alleged Russian meddling in the 2016 presidential election. Schiff repeatedly raised questions about alleged collision between Moscow and members of Donald Trump’s presidential campaign.

House Intelligence Committee Ranking Member Adam Schiff (D-CA).

U.S. Embassy Warns Americans: Islamic State Active in India

The U.S. Embassy in the Indian capital of New Delhi issued a security message this week, urging Americans to “maintain a high level of vigilance” following media reports highlighting the Islamic State’s “desire to attack targets in India,” namely places that are visited regularly by Westerners.

Kashmir Muslim protesters hold a flag of Islamic State as they shout anti-India slogans du

‘Patience with Russia Has Run Out’: U.S.-Russia Tensions Escalate in Syria

WASHINGTON, D.C. — The United States has suspended negotiations with Russia over the war in Syria, accusing the Kremlin for the collapse of the most recent ceasefire and of joining forces loyal to Syrian Dictator Bashar al-Assad in targeting civilians in the besieged city of Aleppo rather than fighting the Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL).

TOPSHOT - Russian President Vladimir Putin (L) meets with his US counterpart Barack Obama

U.S.-Russia Talks Over Syria on Brink of Collapse

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Negotiations between America and Russia over the future of the nearly six-year-old civil war in Syria are on “life support,” says a U.S. State Department spokesman, as the two nations continue to spar over the future of war-ravaged Aleppo, blaming one another for the ongoing chaos and carnage in the city.

A man takes pictures of civilians lying down to take cover after hearing what activists sa

UN Awarded Millions in Contracts to Friends of Assad

“The UN has awarded contracts worth tens of millions of dollars to people closely associated with the Syrian president, Bashar al-Assad, as part of an aid program that critics fear is increasingly at the whim of the government in Damascus,” reported the UK Guardian on Monday.

A member of the Syrian Arab Red Crescent (SARC) drives a truck as a convoy of SARC and Uni