John Hudson
Wednesday, May 14, 2014 - 14:56
Dempsey's dour assessment of the military situation on the ground compounded the already bleak outlook offered by United Nations and Arab League peace envoy Lakhdar Brahimi on Tuesday as he handed in his resignation.
Friday, April 25, 2014 - 12:32
On Thursday, American-brokered peace talks ground to a halt with the Israeli government's decision to suspend negotiations with the Palestine Liberation Organization after it brokered a unity agreement with rival Palestinian faction Hamas. The decision brought the peace negotiations to one of the lowest points yet in Secretary of State John Kerry's controversial, months-long effort to bring the two sides together, but the State Department refused to declare the talks dead.
Wednesday, April 23, 2014 - 06:41
Syrian President Bashar al-Assad has gotten rid of 80 percent of his chemical weapons, and is increasingly likely to hit a key deadline for the elimination of his entire arsenal by the end of the month. That good news is being partially overshadowed, however, by growing signs that Assad is still waging chemical attacks on communities in rebel-held areas of the country.
Monday, April 14, 2014 - 07:01
On Friday, the White House announced the retirement of Deputy Secretary of State Bill Burns, a giant in the diplomatic world and a key architect of the nuclear negotiations with Iran and six world powers.
Thursday, April 10, 2014 - 11:19
He believes the U.S. should intervene more directly in Syria than the administration has been willing to do, but he also has defended the White House against heated attacks by his colleagues.
Wednesday, April 2, 2014 - 12:05
Now, as the secretary of state, Kerry has supported using Pollard's potential release as a bargaining chip in the Obama administration's attempts to salvage the flailing Israeli-Palestinian peace talks.
Wednesday, March 5, 2014 - 10:41
Still, the speech avoided any direct attacks against the Obama administration's foreign policy efforts -- a tone that stood in contrast to the somewhat icy showdown between Netanyahu and Obama on Monday.
Monday, February 24, 2014 - 08:24
With a vicious spate of mass killings plaguing the Democratic Republic of the Congo, a Senate panel is calling on experts to appear before U.S. lawmakers next week. One of them is Hollywood actor and serial activist Ben Affleck, The Cable has learned.
Thursday, January 30, 2014 - 08:49
"Between the 75,000 to 110,000 fighters inside Syria, "about 26,000 we'd rate as extremists," he said.
Tuesday, January 28, 2014 - 07:15
Menendez's committee has now agreed to the sale because the State Department adequately addressed his concerns, according to a Senate aide familiar with the matter.