U.S. State Department

Richard Painter suggested the Secretary of State was in a tough spot after Gordon Sondland said he was "in the loop" on the alleged quid pro quo with Ukraine.

The 1976 Arms Export Control Act and a related executive order allow presidential administrations to restrict the flow of weapons out of the country.

Congressman Eliot Engel, who chairs the House Foreign Affairs Committee, said in a statement that the inspector general's report "confirms what we feared."

"More and more I found myself in a defensive stance, struggling to explain to foreign peoples the blatant contradictions at home," the Foreign Service veteran wrote.

Hamza bin Laden, an emerging leader in Al Qaeda, was labeled a "specially designated global terrorist" in January 2017.

The State Department asks that you "reconsider travel" to Turkey and explicitly warns "do not travel" to certain areas of the country.

A State Department transcript of a Mike Pompeo briefing said it was delivered in "Singapore, Malaysia."

An employee at the U.S. Consulate in Guangzhou and his family left China on Wednesday after hearing strange noises and experiencing excruciating headaches.

2017 saw a record number of killings, with the country's interior ministry reporting 29,168 in total.

The U.S., Iran and Syria all have complicated relationships with Turkey, which sees the Syrian civil war as an opportunity to tackle Kurdish groups.

Regional governor said he is not sure what is behind U.S. decision, though an explosion hurt Americans on a ferry last month.

The chief prosecutor of a war crimes court investigating atrocities in Kosovo has said state department is making him leave his job at short notice and with no successor.

The United States has stepped up its condemnation of the Iranian government in the wake of mass protests.

Archaeologists in their 80s have been coming out of retirement to help with this stunning development.

Senators have called Tillerson's reorganization plan "very unsatisfactory."

Republicans and Democrats on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee condemn the state of U.S. diplomacy.

America loses the ability to shape world events as 60 percent of career ambassadors leave State Department.

Sources tell NBC News Secretary of State Rex Tillerson insulted the president and threatened to quit over the summer.

The symptoms were contracted late last year, with two Cuban officials being asked to leave the United States in May.

Funding to fight Russian misinformation would also be used to combat ISIS propaganda.

There is still "plenty of work to do" to restructure the State Department, Tillerson's spokesman says.

The Clinton-era Office of Global Criminal Justice offered rewards, sought justice in cases of mass atrocities.

The U.S. Secretary of State lost it over interference in hiring of staffers.

The State Department's Stuart Jones appeared took a 20-second-long silent pause when a reporter asked him about U.S.' backing of democracy and Saudi Arabia

The State Department said it would be the first meeting of the full coalition since December 2014, shortly after it was founded.

Foreign embassies report widespread anger and condemnation as a result of Donald Trump's executive order.

Tillerson said his differences with Trump on some major issues would not necessarily put him at loggerheads with the White House.

Kerry apologized to hundreds of State Department employees who were fired after the start of the Cold War for being gay in what is known as the "lavender scare."

American diplomats documented some of Rex Tillerson's global dealings in State Department cables leaked to WikiLeaks in 2010.

The Pentagon has more members of the military serving in marching bands than the State Department has career diplomats.