Deputy Assistant Secretary of State Gabriel Escobar warned Thursday that Kosovo’s ban on usage of the Serbian dinar could trigger “an emerging humanitarian issue” for the country’s ethnic Serb minority. Escobar stressed that the issue must be addressed “immediately,” and that it
Top State Dept. official reassures Kosovo of shared responsibility in Serbian relations during visit
Kosovo show weapons seized after recent siege Kosovo called on Serbia on Monday to hand over all those involved in a shootout between Kosovar police and ethnic Serb gunmen that killed four people in the restive north of the country. (Reuters) Deputy
A senior U.S. official on Tuesday said he would be visiting Kosovo in the next days to put “back on track” talks on normalizing ties between Kosovo and Serbia, after tensions escalated over Kosovo’s decision to ban the use of the Serbian
The State Department on Sunday updated its travel advisory for Iraq to include the ordered departure of all non-emergency U.S. government personnel and eligible family members. Americans are warned “do not travel to Iraq due to terrorism, kidnapping, armed conflict, civil unrest,
Americans in the hundreds have turned to Project DYNAMO to find a way out of Israel as airlines pause services and avenues out of the country continue to disappear. “My team of case managers, who are based in America, they’ve been awake
Former U.S. Marine Trevor Reed who was wrongfully detained in Russia for three years before his release in a prisoner exchange, has been wounded while fighting in Ukraine. Vedant Patel, deputy spokesperson for the State Department said Tuesday that Reed “was injured
FIRST ON FOX: A Republican congressman has introduced a bill that would require more transparency from the State Department as to how wrongful detainment determinations are made following several high profile Americans being locked up abroad in recent years. Rep. Guy Reschenthaler
The U.S. State Department is warning it will use “a number of tools” to “hold North Korea accountable” if the nation proceeds with an illicit satellite launch. Deputy State Department spokesman Vedant Patel addressed the issue regarding the Democratic People’s Republic of
FIRST ON FOX – Some House Foreign Affairs Committee members appeared grossly dissatisfied with a briefing on the State Department’s Afghanistan dissent cable, with one representative going so far as to call it “insulting” to the fallen or forgotten Americans in Kabul.
A Connecticut woman who was last seen nearly two weeks ago hiking the Kumano Kodo trail in Japan has the U.S. State Department and the FBI helping in the search for her, her husband said. Patricia “Pattie” Wu-Murad, 60, was reported missing by