Is Nikki Haley the Real Secretary of State? New Secretary of State Rex Tillerson has taken a low profile since being sworn in; his office has released statements, but he has been criticized for failing to hold press conferences or otherwise speaking to media. On the other hand, Nikki Haley, the...

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Thursday that Russian President Vladimir Putin had “internalized” his warning that Iran must not be allowed to fill any vacuum left by the Islamic State in Syria. “One of the things that we are fighting against together is radical Islamic terrorism,” Netanyahu said before meeting with the...

The United States Ambassador to the United Nations said on Wednesday that Washington supported efforts to bring peace to Syria, and stressed that any agreement must “get Iran and their proxies” out of the embattled country, Radio Free Europe reported. After attending a Security Council briefing on a recently-concluded round of...

Israel has an “absolute right” to live in security and free from terrorism, British Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson said on Wednesday in remarks before a meeting in Jerusalem with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Johnson reaffirmed that Prime Minister Theresa May and the rest of the British government are “rock-like supporters...

For those of us who spent much of 2016, based upon then-candidate Donald Trump’s own bombastic declarations, worrying about the thrust of the foreign policy of a future Trump administration, President Trump’s address to Congress Feb. 28 provided welcome relief. As ever, precise details were scarce and important shifts of...

The United Nations Human Rights Council’s “obsession” with Israel has diverted attention from its mission and made a “mockery” of its proceedings, limiting the good it could otherwise accomplish across the world, the American representative to the council said in a speech Wednesday. Erin Barclay, deputy assistant secretary of state for international organization...