The Latest Breaking News from US State Department

Explore Louis Armstrong's visit to Congo during its independence and the political tensions of the time in the documentary 'Soundtrack to a Coup D’Etat'.

The U.S. State Department is calling for an investigation into the killing of a 17-year-old U.S. citizen in the West Bank. The victim's father shares detai...

U.S. State Department spokesperson Matthew Miller said in a statement Wednesday that the department has "credible information indicating that Giammattei accepted bribes in exchange for the performance of his public functions during his tenure as president of Guatemala, actions that undermined the rule of law and government transparency."

Designing solutions to problems sounds all well and good. But the problem, as former US State Department official Richard Fontaine once pointed out, is that not all problems can actually be solved. Sometimes, problems have to be managed.