More than 130 retired diplomats and other former senior U.S. officials issued an open letter on Thursday criticizing a ...

Foreign service officers face new hiring criteria as State Department removes DEI requirements and adds "fidelity" as a core ...

Working for six secretaries of state, he was known for explaining and defending U.S. foreign policy in a noncombative tone, ...

Sen. Jeanne Shaheen (N.H.), the top Democrat on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, announced Tuesday she introduced a ...

State Department employees already bracing for mass layoffs faced another blow Friday in the Supreme Court’s ruling that ...

Democrats say they are worried about reports that about 700 career diplomats will be fired. The agency has said it plans to ...

Secretary of State Marco Rubio has called the agency “bloated,” yet as violence spiked in the Middle East, staff say they’ve ...

The American Foreign Service Association urged the State Department on Wednesday to not go ahead with a planned overhaul that ...

The shift will affect about three dozen employees whose clearances have been suspended or revoked, according to an internal ...

The State Department is ending a program that for decades has given benefits and funds to low-performing diplomats rather ...

He became assistant secretary of state for South and Central Asia and was ambassador to the Organization for Economic ...

WASHINGTON >> The American Foreign Service Association urged the State Department on Wednesday to not go ahead with a planned ...