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Tillerson: Trump avoiding UK so May can focus on Brexit

Secretary of State Rex Tillerson said Wednesday that President Trump is foregoing a trip to the United Kingdom for the time being to avoid distracting Prime Minister Theresa May from negotiating...

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Turkey warns of action in Syria unless US halts aid to Kurds

Turkey warned the U.S. that it would take action in Syria's Afrin district if the U.S. continued to aid Kurdish fighters in the area.“We emphasized that such a step was very wrong,” Turkey's Deputy...

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Tillerson to talk Syria, North Korea during swing through Europe

Secretary of State Rex Tillerson will depart Washington for a four-country swing through Europe next week that includes stops in London and Paris as well as Davos, Switzerland, and Warsaw, Poland, the...

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Buck Sexton: Trump’s Syria policy can prevent another hellish war

While the Islamic State has lost nearly all its territory in Syria, multiple crises still grip the country and any one of them could spiral out of control. Syria is still a battlefield for warring...

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Tillerson: Sometimes we forget importance of US-UK relationship

Secretary of State Rex Tillerson said Monday that the United States needs to pay attention to its relationship with the U.K. despite ongoing issues in other parts of the world.“We spend a lot of time...

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Tillerson: US, European countries may not reach agreement ahead of Iran...

Secretary of State Rex Tillerson on Monday said the U.S. may not be able fix the flaws in the Iran nuclear agreement in time to meet a White House deadline because the deal is contingent on getting...

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Tillerson's open-ended Syria war proves US is stuck in mideast quicksand

When Secretary of State Rex Tillerson announced last week that American troops would remain in Syria indefinitely, he sounded much like the legendary nation-grabber Theodore Roosevelt.“We have hoisted...

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Some State Dept. employees retaining lawyers amid career concerns: report

Several State Department employees are retaining lawyers amid concerns that their careers are now being stalled because of past work on policies and initiatives championed by former President Obama....

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Top Dems demand answers from State Department after employees cite career...

Democratic lawmakers are urging the State Department's Inspector General to probe the department's personnel practices after several employees voiced concerns their careers were being stalled because...

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Airline executives praise US agreement with Qatar over subsidies

Airline executives and labor unions on Tuesday praised the agreement reached between the Trump administration and Qatar aimed at settling a feud over airline subsidies.Delta CEO Ed Bastian called the...

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Week ahead: Lawmakers zero in on cyber diplomacy

A panel of House lawmakers is set to explore how the United States engages with the international community on cybersecurity, a meeting that will feature testimony from the government's former top...

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President Trump's head-on approach is changing the way China does business

U.S. and European companies involved in joint ventures with state-owned Chinese firms may have accidentally made a deal with the devil. Firms have been asked to give Communist Party individuals...

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Tillerson condemns Polish president signing bill on Holocaust speech

Secretary of State Rex Tillerson on Tuesday condemned a decision by the Polish president to sign a controversial bill outlawing speech that blames Poland for crimes committed by Nazi Germany, saying...

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Tillerson: Russia already looking to interfere in 2018 midterms

Secretary of State Rex Tillerson said Tuesday that Russia is already trying to meddle in this year’s midterm elections in the U.S.“If it’s their intention to interfere, they are going to find ways to...

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Russian contractors may have been part of attack on US coalition members in...

U.S.-led coalition forces are looking into whether Russian contractors were involved in an attack against Syrian Democratic Forces on Wednesday.U.S. Central Command reported Wednesday that pro-Syrian...

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America’s Catch-22 diplomacy, when friends are also adversaries

The United States has “calculations against Turkey and Iran and maybe Russia,” Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan told members of his political party on Feb. 6. It was the latest harsh criticism of...

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Tillerson raises alarm at meeting of coalition fighting ISIS

Secretary of State Rex Tillerson sought on Tuesday to refocus the U.S.-led coalition charged with fighting the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS) group on its mission amid a series of...

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Iran calls on US to withdraw from Syria

A top Iranian official called Wednesday for United States troops withdraw from Syria and defended Iran's own military presence in the country after U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson called on Iran...

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Handling Turkey's Erdogan: What Washington can learn from Russia

Russian President Vladimir Putin knows to handle his fellow authoritarian leaders; he relentlessly applies leverage to extract concessions. This is a lesson that Secretary of State Rex Tillerson should...

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Tillerson leaves military response to Syrian chemical attacks on the table

Secretary of State Rex Tillerson has suggested a U.S. military response to the Syrian government's alleged use of chemical weapons remains on the table. "President Trump has already demonstrated that...

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