Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken will deliver remarks and participate in an opening ceremony for a new state-of-the-art building at the Foreign Service Institute’s (FSI) Arlington campus at 11:00 a.m. on Monday, October 23. Building B, the latest addition to FSI’s campus, offers modern learning and meeting spaces technologically equipped to train the Department of State workforce and members of the U.S. foreign affairs community to advance U.S. diplomacy […]

The United States welcomes the delivery of a 20-truck convoy carrying much needed humanitarian assistance to the people in Gaza, the first since Hamas’s horrific October 7 terrorist attack on Israel. We thank our partners in Egypt and Israel, and the United Nations, for facilitating the safe passage of these shipments through the Rafah border […]

The below is attributable to Spokesperson Matthew Miller: Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken spoke with Lebanese caretaker Prime Minister Najib Mikati yesterday to affirm U.S. support for the Lebanese people and noted growing concern over rising tensions along Lebanon’s southern border. The Secretary reiterated the importance of respecting the interests of the Lebanese people, […]

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 […]

Government of Chad security forces killed four demonstrators outside the U.S. Embassy in N’Djamena on October 20, 2022. Over the last year and in multiple meetings with senior Chadian officials, the United States has pressed for accountability for these killings. Despite assurances that the matter had been handed over to the Public Prosecutor, we have […]