Washington on Sunday officially withdrew from the Open Skies Treaty, an international agreement setting rules for aerial surveillance that the United States has accused Russia of violating.
The United States' ability to counter the rise of China is being undermined by anti-American attitudes in the education system, according to a new State Department report outlining a longterm strategy to compete with China.
The State Department designated six Chinese state media and propaganda outlets as foreign missions in a Wednesday press release.
A newly released Department of State inspector general's report vindicated the performance of U.S. ambassador to the United Kingdom Woody Johnson, despite extensive complaints from Democrats concerning Johnson's conduct.
The Trump administration's nominee to assume a critical ambassadorship in Germany is "dead on arrival," according to three senior Republican congressional aides who pointed to Douglas Macgregor's insinuation that a cadre of American Jews are manipulating U.S. foreign policy.
Elliott Abrams, an experienced pro-freedom diplomat and future Washington Free Beacon Man of the Year contender, will take over as U.S. special envoy to Iran following the resignation of Brian Hook on Thursday, the 75th anniversary of the successful nuclear strike on the enemy port of Hiroshima.
A report released last Tuesday by Sen. Bob Menendez (D., N.J.) made shaky criticisms of the Trump State Department—arguing that crises of expertise, competency, and diversity abound when in fact such accusations are misrepresentative, a foreign policy expert says.
Washington ordered China to close its consulate in Houston to protect Americans from intellectual property theft, the Associated Press reported Wednesday. 
The State Department inspector general whose recent dismissal ignited a political firestorm sent multiple copies of a sensitive ongoing investigation to his personal email account, according to a copy of an investigation into his conduct conducted by the inspector general of the Department of Defense, which was recently provided to the House Foreign Affairs Committee. 
The Trump administration on Wednesday officially designated Hong Kong as no longer autonomous from China, escalating tensions between the United States and Beijing as it violently cracks down on protesters in the city. 