U.S. Policy Toward Syria ISIS has lost the vast majority of the territory it once held in Syria, as it has in Iraq. But while Russia may consider the fight in Syria to be over, U.S. Acting Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern Affairs David S...
Top 5 Songs for Week Ending Jan. 13 We're uncorking the five most popular songs in the Billboard Hot 100 Pop Singles Chart, for the week ending Jan. 13, 2018. We have no big changes for you this week, just a small re-arrangement. Number 5: Imagine Dr...
U.S. Imposes Sanctions Over Iran's Missile Development The United States Department of Treasury has imposed sanctions on five entities linked to Iran's ballistic missile program. The announcement was made January 4 as anti-Iranian government demonstr...
Sanctioning North Korea Officials The U.S. Department of the Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control, or OFAC, has sanctioned two individuals in response to North Korea's ongoing development of weapons of mass destruction and their means of deliv...
Technology Crucial to Women's Empowerment The Administration of President Donald Trump has placed a focus on women's economic opportunities, empowerment and entrepreneurship. That's because even though there is no better way to strengthen the economy...
The Department of State has designated Muhammad al-Ghazali, Abukar Ali Adan, and Wanas al-Faqih as Specially Designated Global Terrorists. These designations impose strict sanctions on foreign individuals determined to have committed, or pose a signi...
U.S. Ambassador to Rwanda Erica J. Barks-Ruggles visited Ruvugizo Village in Kinazi sector in Huye this month to promote U.S. government-funded activities to combat malnutrition. During her visit on December 5th, the Ambassador observed Growth Monito...
Humanitarian Evacuations in Syria The United States welcomes the urgent and long awaited medical evacuations that took place from Eastern Ghouta in Syria between December 27 to the 29th. In a press statement released December 29th, U.S. Department Sp...
Safe Drinking Water for Maldives The United States Agency for International Development, or USAID, and the Government of Maldives inaugurated a $3.8 million integrated water supply and distribution system recently, providing a safe and reliable water...
Lack of inexpensive, reliable energy delivery is one of the chief obstacles to growth and development in sub-Saharan Africa. Nearly seventy percent of people living in the region lack access to electricity, forcing them to spend significant amounts o...
Lack of inexpensive, reliable energy delivery is one of the chief obstacles to growth and development in sub-Saharan Africa. Nearly seventy percent of people living in the region lack access to electricity, forcing them to spend significant amounts o...
The people of Iran are finally acting against the brutal and corrupt Iranian regime, said President Donald Trump in tweet posted January 2nd. Referring to peaceful protests that began December 28th in the city of Mashhad, President Trump noted the pe...
The U.S. Embassy in Phnom Penh announced this month that the Cultural Heritage Center for the Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs (ECA) of the U.S. Department of State has awarded $350,000 from the Ambassadors Fund for Cultural Preservation to...
