When Lithuania’s Jovita Neliupšienė was born in 1980, in the city of Panevėžys, her country was still part of the Soviet Union, and Donald Trump was a rising Manhattan real-estate developer. Back then ...

Nearly 14 years after the overthrow and killing of Libya’s longtime strongman, Col. Muammar Qaddafi, the country remains mired in economic chaos despite its vast oil wealth. Yet signs of hope are ...

Gustavo Petro, 62, is a former M-19 guerrillero who in 1985 was captured and tortured by the army, served 18 months in prison, eventually went into politics and in 2022 won election as the 34th ...

I know the saying because sometimes I’ve said it myself: Washington is broken. Nothing good gets done. It’s getting more tied up in unnecessary red tape. Well, that’s wrong. A few days ago, the Biden ...

Sweden’s Jan Eliasson is one of the most skilled and respected diplomats of his generation. He soared through the ranks of Swedish diplomacy, from advising prime ministers and foreign ministers, to ...

The Biden administration just made a worthy pledge: “The United States is committed to sustaining critical investments in the fundamentals of thriving societies,” the White House stated a few days ago ...

As the conflict between Israel and Hamas rages on in the beleaguered Gaza Strip, with a ceasefire proving to be elusive, Riyad Mansour, the Palestinian Authority’s ambassador to the United Nations, ...

Prominent scientist, diplomat, conservationist, artist and poet Joseph Edsel Edmunds, a former ambassador of St. Lucia to the United States, died July 21 at the age of 89. With just 180,000 people, St ...

Washington boasts two clubs on the 11 Most Exclusive Private Clubs in America list, created by Los Angeles-based consultancy Club Marketing. One of these, the University Club, about a half mile north ...

Behind the many ambassadors who are busy representing their countries in the United States are the unsung heroes of diplomatic life: their wives and husbands. These spouses take on a crucial, yet ...

Dutch Ambassador Birgitta Tazelaar. Tan and the two European ambassadors were among nine panelists who spoke at a May 9 event organized by The Washington Diplomat and co-sponsored by KP, Glass Health ...

A message from U.S. Secretary of State Christian Herter, congratulating Somaliland on its independence on June 26, 1960. (Screenshot) Goth is optimistic that the United States will eventually come ...