In a letter to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen (R-FL), Chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, and Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH), Chairman of the House Republican Study Committee, expressed concerns and raised a number of questions ...

Karim Mezran and Eric Knecht of the Atlantic Council’s Rafik Hariri Center argued in US News that the international community must "offer whatever assistance the Libyan government needs" as it struggles to reign in militias and form a national army and police force. On Tuesday, ...

State Department Spokeswoman Victoria Nuland explained that due to concern from Congress over the recently-announced $450 million of assistance pledged to Egypt, the State Department is "going to have to work with the Congress in the coming days ...

Rep. Kay Granger (R-TX), chairwoman of the congressional subcommittee administering foreign aid, blocked $450 million in emergency aid for Egypt, part of a larger debate that has been brewing in the Congress about U.S. aid for the Middle East. ...

Thousands gathered in Benghazi on September 21 to participate in "Rescue Benghazi Day," a rally to support Libyan democracy and to protest the expansion of independent militias. "It's obvious that this protest is against the militias. All of them should join the ...

Secretary of State Hillary Clinton announced an official review of security at the U.S. mission in Libya following attacks that killed four Americans. "I will advise Congress … I am launching an accountability review board that will be chaired by ...

On September 18, Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) issued a letter to members of the U.S. House of Representatives urging them to pass a bill cutting all foreign aid to any country that fails to secure U.S. embassies. The letter also demands accountability ...

Robert Beecroft, current Chargé d’Affaires in Baghdad, testified in front of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee on Wednesday after being nominated by President Obama for the post of ambassador to Iraq. In his opening remarks, Beecroft described Iraq's ...

On September 14, Senators Jim DeMint (R-SC) and Bob Corker (R-TN), both members of the U.S. Senate Committee on Foreign Relations,  introduced S. 3551, a bill requiring investigations into a report on the September 11-12, 2012, attacks on ...

Ty McCormick writing in Foreign Policy recently delved into Republican Vice Presidential candidate Paul Ryan's foreign policy record, arguing that the while the congressman's record is "remarkably short," the indicators that do exist point to an outlook aligning with ...

Fourteen members of Congress, led by Rep. Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) , sent a letter to President Obama this week requesting that U.S. NGO's be permitted to assist in the disaster relief to Iran following last week earthquakes that have ...

The appeals verdict for prominent Bahraini human rights leader Nabeel Rajab, imprisoned after sending a tweet calling for the kingdom's prime minister to resign,  will be issued Thursday according to Rajab's lawyer. The decision had been scheduled to ...

Pervasive violence through recent months has some analysts wondering if Iraq is a failed state. "Six months after the U.S. military left Iraq," wrote Lara Jakes and Kay Johnson of the Associated Press, "dire predictions seem to be ...

The Project on Middle East Democracy (POMED) released a report contrasting the House and Senate Appropriations bills for fiscal year 2013, examining the potential impact of these bills on foreign aid and democracy assistance. Among the notable findings are additional ...

Today, the Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on the Department of State, Foreign Operations and Related Programs passed the fiscal year 2013 Department of State, Foreign Operations, and Related Programs Appropriations Bill.  Senator Ron Johnson (R-WI) was the only member present ...