[Don’t miss Barndollar discussing the forever war, the military industrial complex, and military reform at our fifth annual foreign policy conference on November 15 in Washington, D.C.  ... In May, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo presented Iran with a list of 12 demands that bring to mind..…

Embassy have had to scale back contacts with Cuban human rights activists, independent journalists and others, officials said, even as more hawkish officials under Bolton and Pompeo have challenged Cuban human rights policies more aggressively from Washington and at the United Nations. . ..…

Pompeo and Mattis met with China's Central Foreign Affairs Commission Office Yang Jiechi and Defense Minister General Wei Fenghe Washington. . ... Beijing rejects US demands to demilitarize artificial islands it built in the South China Sea done for defense, not offense,..…

While Pompeo noted the U.S.-China Diplomatic and Security Dialogue in Washington was 'productive,' he highlighted China's repression of some religious groups. . ... Secretary of State Mike Pompeo looks to Secretary of Defense Jim Mattis during a news conference with Chinese..…