U.S. State Department

The first Black secretary of state and the youngest chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Powell died of complications from COVID-19.

The dystopian series reflects a “winner-take-all” mentality and South Koreans’ economic frustrations ahead of presidential elections.

After high-profile resignations, Biden diplomats scramble to shore up stability in Haiti and stem migration.

U.S. sanctions are in tatters, and China doesn’t want the United Nations imposing more.

A month after the U.S. withdrawal, Afghans who worked for the U.S. war effort are in hiding. Few see a way out.

Some fear larger State Department China desk could be a “massive bureaucratic blob.”

Republican lawmakers grilled Biden’s top diplomat over the end to the United States’ Afghan war.

State employees protest the continued employment of an “antisemitic” blogger in their ranks.

Thousands of Americans and Afghans are still stranded in what lawmakers are calling a fiasco.

American diplomats reckon with Afghanistan’s collapse.

The United States evacuates its embassy while diplomats and aid officials brace for a new humanitarian catastrophe.

How “the worst consular system in the world” was turned around—and why it needs to happen again.

The ban on importing dogs from more than 100 countries is leaving U.S. government personnel posted abroad in limbo.

Sen. Ted Cruz wages an unprecedented partisan fight with the U.S. president over a Russian pipeline project, hobbling the administration’s foreign policy.

Experts said Washington needs an envoy to help shepherd Sudan’s tenuous transition to democracy.

So far, Biden hasn’t signaled whether there will be any retaliation.

Senators quietly press U.S. President Joe Biden to reassess U.S.-Nigeria relations amid human rights concerns.

America’s greatest success story in Africa has degenerated into its biggest failure.

Systemic management and morale issues plague the State Department, even after Trump era.