William Joseph Burns, known as Bill to his colleagues, stepped down as Deputy Secretary of State in October 2014 after…
Will Rogers once observed that “when you get into trouble 5,000 miles from home, you’ve got to have been looking…
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Edward “Skip” Gnehm served as Ambassador to Kuwait shortly after the U.S. invasion of Iraq, from 1991 to 1994, and…
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(From Left to Right): The U.S. Embassy in Beirut, Lebanon, after a bomb attack in 1983; Marine Corps Sgt. Clayton…
The Middle East has been a complicated, if not violent, region for millennia, which has only been exacerbated by recent…
“It was the worst day we have ever seen, but it brought out the best in all of us.” –Senator…
In this interview with the Foreign Service Journal, Charles Stuart Kennedy talks about his Foreign Service career and pioneering work creating American…
September 11, 2001 left an indelible mark on American history when nineteen members of al Qaeda carried out the deadliest…