Larry Luxner, news editor of the Washington Diplomat, interviews Ukraine's Oksana Markarova during our Ambassador Insider Series, which took place Feb. 29 at the Embassy Suites Hilton in Bethesda, ...

Many in the United States look beyond their borders and see a dangerous world with raging wars, surging violence and deepening instability. But a new report by the Eurasia Group, a leading political ...

U.S. Army tanks and personnel from A Company pose for a photo under the Hands of Victory monument in Baghdad’s Ceremony Square in November 2003 shortly after the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq. The Hands ...

United Nations Deputy Secretary-General Jan Eliasson shakes hands with Somali Prime Minister Abdi Farah Shirdon at Villa Somalia in 2013. (AMISOM Public Information / Flickr) Sweden’s Jan Eliasson is ...

Washington’s newest crop of ambassadors includes five women, two diplomats who have previously served here, and one son of a former ambassador. They represent a variety of countries ranging from the ...

Permanent Observer Riyad Mansour of State of Palestine attends Security Council meeting on situation in Rafah at UN Headquarters in New York on May 20, 2024. Photo: Shutterstock, Lev Radin As the ...

A wall in Bethlehem, in the occupied West Bank, built as a security measure in the early 2000s, is covered in graffiti calling for peace. Separation walls were also built in Northern Ireland during ...

John Shaw is a contributing writer for the Diplomat and is the director of the Paul Simon Public Policy Institute at Southern Illinois University. Sweden’s Jan Eliasson is one of the most skilled and ...

At left: Guatemala, Czech Republic, Cambodia, Zaire, Australia (Queensland), Albania, Bosnia, Zambia, Algeria. At right: David Mack, former US ambassador to the United Arab Emirates, holds up the ...

Dina Kawar, who was one of the first women to work in Jordan’s Foreign Service, took over as her country’s ambassador to the United States on June 27, 2016. It’s her third such assignment. Kawar was ...

Sikh foreman looks on as his workers repair a valve at the Faregh gas complex near Jalu, deep in Libya's Sahara Desert. (Photo by Larry Luxner) Nearly 14 years after the overthrow and killing of Libya ...

Somaliland's representative in Washington, D.C., Bashir Goth, sits between the flags of Somaliland and the United States in his office in Alexandria, Va. (Washington Diplomat) On one of Bashir Goth’s ...