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In the early morning hours of October 11, 1987, a Burmese turboprop plane transporting 49 passengers, including 36 foreign nationals…
Since the dissolution of the Ottoman Empire, Yemen was been a hot spot for unrest in the Middle East. The…
Iraqi Kurds are scheduled to hold a referendum on independence in September, 2017. The Kurdistan region of about five million…
When President Richard Nixon took office in 1969, he and National Security Adviser Henry Kissinger vowed to find a way…
The State Department invests significant resources in training its incoming consular officers. They learn through courses taught at the Foreign…
Asian countries took a financial hit in 1997, resulting in a crisis that reverberated throughout the world. It began on…
Haiti has long been plagued by coups d’état and regime changes, leading to long-time political instability and weak governance. In…
Signed in Ottawa, Canada on December 3, 1997, the Convention on the Prohibition of the Use, Stockpiling, Production and Transfer…
A council of combined security forces known as the Derg staged a coup d’état on September 12, 1974 against Ethiopian…