Whereas, in December 2017, Secretary of Defense James N. Mattis stated, “We have gone in to be very—to be helpful where we can in identifying how you do target analysis and how you make certain you hit the right thing.”; . ..…

Last May, US Defense Secretary James Mattis announced that the US was shifting from a policy of 'attrition' to one of 'annihilation' in the war against IS just as a surge in bombing was killing large numbers of civilians. ..…

The vote occurred hours after senators received closed-door briefing Wednesday from Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and Defense Secretary Jim Mattis on what the administration knows about Khashoggi's October at Saudi Arabian Turkey. ..…

Businessman Donald Trump (R) defeated former New York Senator and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton (D) for the presidency on November 8, 2016. . ... Clinton leaned on her experience as a U.S. senator and secretary of state in response to voter concerns about terrorism. ..…

Jim Miller, former undersecretary of defense for policy, opened his remarks by praising Defense Secretary James Mattis for articulating a new national defense strategy that gives principal focus to great power competition. ... O’Hanlon then asked Frank Rose—senior fellow at Brookings and former..…

We are writing to share our serious concerns about President Trump's of Marshall Billingslea to be Under Secretary for Civilian Security, Democracy, and Human Rights at Department of State, given Mr. ... Billingslea encouraged the use of interrogation methods that amounted to torture or other..…

Secretary of State Mike Pompeo delivers remarks to the media following briefing of senators on Capitol Hill.  ... This entry was posted in, President Trump, Saudi Arabia, Secretary of State, Secretary Pompeo, Turkey, Uncategorized, Yemen. ..…

The resolution called on UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres to make proposals within 60 days on ways and means for ensuring the safety, protection, and well-being of Palestinian under Israeli occupation, including recommendations regarding protection mechanism... ..…

The United States should also sign on to efforts such as the request of 15 Western ambassadors (from Australia, Belgium, Canada, Denmark, Estonia, the European Union, Finland, France, Germany, Ireland, the Netherlands, Norway, Sweden, Switzerland, and the United Kingdom) for a meeting with Xinjiang region..…

Institute for Peace, Secretary of Defense James Mattis called for all parties involved in the war in Yemen to agree to a ceasefire, stating, .   ... Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and other international leaders. . Hudaydah Offensive 2.0 . ..…

In response, Secretary of Defense Mattis announced that a panel would be established to discuss how to implement Trump’s order and what impact it should have on those service members who came out of the closet in reliance on the announced change in policy last year. ... Trump issued a memorandum..…

Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and Secretary of Defense Jim Mattis called on all warring parties to agree to terms for peace talks within 30 days. ..…

Putin’s press secretary, Dmitry Peskov, stated that there can be no “separate deal” on the transfer of the islands. ..…

The then US Secretary of State, Mr. Henry Kissinger, on record threatened him of dire consequences if he did not roll back the nuclear programme. . ..…

Circuit Court of Appeals haven’t yet issued their decision on whether the ban should remain in place in the aftermath of Defense Secretary James Mattis’s recommendations affirming Trump’s policy. . ..…

The US State Department through assistant secretary Victoria Nuland and the US ambassador, Geoffrey Pyatt, played key roles in the coup d’état; after its successful completion, followed by the secession of Crimea and an armed uprising in the eastern Donbass area, the NATO command joined in. .....…

She criticized Kenneth Marcus, assistant secretary for civil rights in the Department of Education, for his redefinition of anti-Semitism. . ..…

Despite their best attempts to deceive the American public and push their commercial deforestation agenda for the timber industry, both President Trump and Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke’s comments about managing our national forests have been widely rebutted by firefighters and scientists who..…

Secretary-General António Guterres urged world leaders to swiftly curb greenhouse-gas emissions as they had promised under the Paris climate accord three years ago. ..…

By globalization and how he felt that brought on the nationalist politics of the On stage with former Secretary of State James Baker at Rice University Houston,   Obama noted the failure of the country to adapt to the rapid economic changes brought about Donald Trump era. ..…

The day, Tetsuro Fukuyama, secretary of the opposition Constitutional Democratic Party of Japan, blasted the ruling camp for bulldozing the bill through the lower chamber... ... Japan's top spokesperson, Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga, that foreigners coming to work Japan will..…

The day, Tetsuro Fukuyama, secretary of the opposition Constitutional Democratic Party of Japan, blasted the ruling camp for bulldozing the bill through the lower chamber... ..…

The new entry, along with briefly describing the veterans’ protests, refers to future secretary of state and presidential candidate John Kerry’s televised testimony that week before a Senate committee. ..…

FDR found time on the afternoon of July 30, 1942, in the midst of schedule packed with meetings with Soviet Ambassador Maxim Litvinov, Secretary of State Cordell Hull, and General 'Hap Arnold, to dictate memo greenlighting M Project. ..…

Weerasak Putthasri is a deputy secretary general of the National Health Commission, Thailand. ..…

On the occasion, Secretary at National Women's Commission, Anil Kumar Thakur, lauded the role Foundation played for the education of orphans and children from the community. ..…

On Tuesday, CNN's Wolf Blitzer that senators had been told Haspel would not take part Wednesday's all- Senate classified briefing where Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and Defense Secretary James Mattis will also be present.. ..…

Chief Minister and Chief Secretary of the provincial council of ministers, Narayan Prasad Bidari, said that establishment of province planning commission was political decision.. ..…

Britain's Foreign Secretary Jeremy Hunt delivers a speech at the British embassy in Paris. ... Britain's Foreign Secretary Jeremy Hunt delivers a speech at the British embassy in Paris. ..…

The neocons include Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, and National Security Adviser John Bolton, who has talked about undermining overthrowing Iranian regime. ... While Secretary of State Mike Pompeo threatened that the whole of the sanctions will be the strongest sanctions in history, the..…

Burton, Civilian Aid to the Secretary of the Army John Edwards, and Brig. ..…

In July, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo delivered speech on Iran in. ..…

Maybe we were not listening too well – it was more than four years ago, in March 2014 – to Anders Fogh Rasmussen, who was at the time Secretary-General of NATO. ... Russian Security Council Secretary Nikolai Patrushev in an interview with the newspaper Argumenty i Fakty affirmed Putin's..…

Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin claimed that “this tax plan will not only pay for itself but in fact create additional revenue for the government.” ... Bob Bryan, “Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin doubled down on a claim about the tax bill that almost every independent group says is..…

NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg gave his full support to Poroshenko, who declared martial law. ..…

Republican Senators are expected to grill Trump Administration officials including Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and Defense Secretary Jim Mattis behind closed doors on Wednesday over US- Saudi relations in light of the murder of Jamal Khashoggi. ..…

In most states, the chief electoral official is the secretary of state – which is a political position most commonly filled through elections. Those are the same elections which the secretary of state is responsible for administering. . ..…

But they need to pay attention to how contests were won for positions like secretary of state, state treasurer, and lieutenant governor.. ..…

His Majesty King had his secretary, Air Chief Marshal Sathitpong Sukwimol, present decorated shirts to be distributed among participants in the. ..…

Secretary of Education DeVos, for example, promotes charter schools at the expense of public education.. ..…

So while Bandar may not rank alongside the likes of Vice President Dick Cheney, Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld, and Deputy Secretary of Defense Paul Wolfowitz among the architects of the ensuing Iraq War, he certainly deserves honorable mention. . ..…

Dick Durbin told CNN's Wolf Blitzer Tuesday that senators were told Haspel will not participate Wednesday's all- Senate classified briefing Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and Defense Secretary James Mattis despite indications that lawmakers on both sides of the aisle would like to hear..…

‘This time the battle is contemporary,’ said Sealed Knot general secretary Steve Chisholm explain. ..…

Yet, as the Secretary of Homeland Security has pointed out, “[I]n the last five months, we have a 314 percent increase in adults and children arriving at the border fraudulently, claiming to be a family unit.” ..…

And in autumn 2008, near the end of the Bush administration, Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson and Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke forced many leading American bank executives to accept an inflow of federal money to shore up their institutions’ capital position in exchange for ceding some..…