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Congress won’t let Trump gut foreign assistance. So the administration made it harder to disburse funds, leaving aid programs in China, Iraq, and elsewhere in the lurch.

Troops’ movement on the border has Kurds worried about a Turkish assault.

Defense Secretary Mark Esper is pushing to get key officials confirmed, but significant gaps remain.

State Department meeting highlights internal alarm at China’s growing influence in international organizations.

But the department’s top leaders say they can’t sack the Trump appointee at the center of scandal.

Two decades after brokering peace in the former Yugoslavia, Washington plans to try to restart talks between Serbia and Kosovo.

A school supported by the $50 million loan purchased barbed wire, gas launchers, and body armor.

The highest-level trip this century will likely anger the Kremlin, even as the U.S. president tries to bring Russia back into the G-7.

Trump’s new China hand could be a sticking point in talks with Beijing.

New details suggest Moscow’s interference in the U.S. election may have been more extensive than thought, experts say.

The U.S. president’s maximum pressure campaign on Iran is creating strange bedfellows in Congress.

The bipartisan bill follows the revelation that a longtime Trump advisor was pushing for lucrative nuclear deals with Riyadh.

The U.S. withdrawal could leave tens of thousands vulnerable to Islamic State indoctrination.

The Trump administration feared that taking action against the junta for killing protesters might upend peace talks.

The Air Force wants a key regional ally to get new F-16 fighter jets to deter threats from Caracas.

The abrupt evacuation in May left hundreds of diplomats in limbo and too few in Iraq to handle Iran’s influence and other pressing issues, according to State Department sources.

The two U.S. allies have agreed to a marginal increase to help backfill the U.S. withdrawal.

The news comes as Washington and Beijing agree to resume trade talks.

Rights activists say upcoming trip by U.N. diplomat could reinforce Beijing’s line that Uighur activists are terrorists.

Former U.S. diplomat Donald Booth expected to address the bloody impasse between military and protesters as U.N. officials warn of spiraling violence.

This time it’s a G-7 joint statement ahead of a meeting of national leaders in August.

A new congressional letter raises fears of stumbling into war.

Washington and Berlin face off again over Nord Stream 2 as European ships are targeted.

Twenty-five years after the Rwandan genocide, will the U.N. at last pursue one of its own former officials?

In an internal document, Trump officials threatened to reject an anti-rape measure over language on sexual and reproductive health.

A bipartisan group of lawmakers sent a letter directly to Sisi that appeared to suggest security assistance could be in jeopardy.

The U.S. national security advisor, who has largely ignored the United Nations, is suddenly concerned that Beijing has too much influence there.

Internal documents show how the U.S. works to stymie progress on women’s health, cultural issues, and climate change.

Jessikka Aro was to receive a “Women of Courage” prize. Then officials read her Twitter feed.

As the United States pulls back from the world body, experts say it is ceding influence to China.