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The Biden administration nominated Ambassador Julieta Valls Noyes to serve as assistant secretary of state for the department’s Bureau of…
Following the 1990–1991 Gulf War, the United Nations wanted to prevent any further aggression, and feared that Iraq had developed…
Lewis Lucke was called out of retirement in 2010 to coordinate USAID’s response to the disastrous 7.0 magnitude Haitian earthquake,…
The State of Qatar declared independence from Great Britain on September 3, 1971 and the U.S. recognized it two days…
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The movement to limit or even prohibit the testing of nuclear weapons has been around almost since the dawn of…
Iraq invaded Kuwait on August 2, 1990 largely for economic reasons, but the contiguous Gulf countries had long-standing territorial conflicts…
When a country undergoes internal conflict and something as dramatic as a coup d’etat, the results can often lead to…