Associated Press
| Jul 18, 2012
Republican Senator John McCain defended Huma Abedin, a longtime aide to Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, against unsubstantiated allegations that her family has ties to Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood. She had been accused in a letter signed ...
US Department of State
| Jun 30, 2012
World powers convening for a special meeting in Geneva on the Syrian crisis have agreed to support the creation of a transitional government in the country. US Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton delivers remarks on the agreement following t...
Associated Press
| Jun 5, 2012
Syria barred a string of US and European diplomats Tuesday, saying they were "no longer welcome" as the country plunged into its most profound international isolation in decades. US State Department spokesman Mark Toner said, "In almost every resp...
VOA News
| May 17, 2012
The United States is lifting all of its economic sanctions against the military-led government in Burma following the election to parliament of long-time pro-democracy advocate Aung San Suu Kyi. VOA State Department correspondent Scott Stearns rep...
— Oct 31, 2012 at 09:06 am
...the threat posed by the civil war in Syria. March 14, the opposition group in Lebanon, have been calling for the resignation of Prime Minister N...
— May 9 at 07:00 pm
...of the prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, and he set out several steps Obama could take to start the process, beginning with the appointment of a t...
— Jan 28 at 09:45 pm
...shows a shadow of a US soldier next to a placard on a fence at the Guantanamo Bay detention camp. (AFP/Getty Images) What do you think? As of to...
— May 29, 2012 at 03:58 pm
...by a paramilitary mob.” President of Bahrain Centre for Human Rights, Nabeel Rajab, has been released on $800 bail, his lawyer Mohamed Al Jishi ...
국무부는 미국 정부의 외교 정책을 주관하는 중앙 행정 기관이다. 현 국무장관은 존 케리이다.
장관과 부장관 아래에 각 분야마다 차관과 차관보가 배치되어 있다. 국내 직원만으로 약 5,000명이다. 예산을 감독하고, 여권을 발행하며 여행 주의보를 발령하는 일 등을 담당한다.
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