Today, the Department of State is designating two ISIS leaders as Specially Designated Global Terrorists, under Executive Order 13224.  Both individuals have committed sexual violence against Yezidis and were responsible for the abduction and enslavement of Yezidi women and girls.  More than 2,700 women and children, mainly Yezidis, remain unaccounted for. Arkan Ahmad ‘Abbas al-Matuti […]

Special Representative for Global Partnerships (GP) Dorothy McAuliffe traveled to Costa Rica and Colombia from June 5-8, 2023, co-leading a Partnership Opportunity Delegation (POD). PODs are a GP initiative that facilitate partnerships between the public and private sectors of the United States and selected countries to leverage innovation and resources to advance U.S. foreign policy […]

There is a lot of pro-Putin bias in the Western world. We aim to dispel this “macho” propaganda and reveal true colors of his regime: murder, intimidation, industrialized kleptocracy and well-funded russian fascism propaganda machines. We were born in Russia, we have lost friends to this murderer… we see how he “zombifies” most and intimidates […]

SECRETARY BLINKEN:  It’s always a pleasure to be with my friend, Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba.  And this moment, of course, is of great consequence with what’s happening literally every moment in Ukraine on the battlefield, but in many ways as important as what we’re doing here in London, and that is a reconstruction conference in support […]