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U.S. Special Envoy for Yemen Timothy Lenderking and Deputy Assistant Defense Secretary for the Middle East Daniel Shapiro testified before the Senate Foreign Relations Subcommittee on Near E…

State Department, Defense Department, and the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) officials testified at a hearing on U.S. policy in Yemen. The witnesses updated committee memb…

After a break for votes on the floor, the Senate Foreign Relations Subcommittee on Near East, South Asia, Central Asia and Counterterrorism resumed its hearing on counterterrorism efforts in…

The Senate Foreign Relations Subcommittee on Near East, South Asia, Central Asia and Counterterrorism held a hearing on counterterrorism efforts in North Africa. Two State Department officia…

The Senate Foreign Relations Committee held a hearing on the influence and involvement of Iran with terror-related groups in the Middle East and around the world. Two former Defense Departme…

Brett McGurk, the State Department’s special presidential envoy for the Global Coalition to Counter ISIL, testifies before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee on the threat posed by ISIL*…

Officials from the State Department, U.S. Agency for International Development, the United Nations Development Programme and National Democratic Institute testified at a hearing on counter-t…

Retired General John Allen and Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern Affairs Anne Patterson testified at a hearing U.S. strategy in the Middle East. They detailed ongoing U.S. and co…

Secretary of State Hillary Clinton testified on the September 11, 2012, attack on the U.S. Consulate in Benghazi, Libya. During her testimony, she choked up as she spoke of comforting the vi…

Retired General John Allen, the special presidential envoy for the global coalition to counter ISIS, testified before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee about the U.S. strategy and coali…

The Senate Foreign Relations Committee met to mark up a bill that would authorize limited military force against ISIS for three years. It also permits the use of ground forces in certain sit…

Secretary of State John Kerry testified before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee about the use of military force against ISIS militants. Secretary Kerry said a new congressional Authori…

Senate Foreign Relations Committee. Ranking Member Bob Corker (R-TN) spoke to reporters after attending a closed-door hearing on the threat from the co-called Islamic State*. Senator Corker …

Senate Foreign Relations Committee Member Ben Cardin (D-MD) spoke to reporters after attending a closed-door hearing on the threat from the co-called Islamic State. The Islamic State i…

Secretary of State John Kerry testified at a Senate Foreign Relation Committee hearing on U.S. strategy for combating the Islamic State* militant group. He had just returned from a trip abro…

Witnesses testified about efforts by Somalia, the U.S., and the international community to eliminate terrorist threats to Somalia’s security, such as the al-Qaida affiliated al-Shabaab. The …

Senior State Department officials testified on the September 11, 2012, attack on the U.S. Consulate in Benghazi, Libya, that led to the deaths of Ambassador Chris Stevens and three other Ame…

Senator John Kerry (D-MA) spoke to reporters after a Foreign Relations Committee top-secret, closed-door meeting on the circumstances surrounding the September 11, 2012, attack on the U.S. C…

Senators Bob Corker (R-TN) and Dick Durbin (D-IL) spoke to reporters after a Foreign Relations Committee top-secret, closed-door meeting on the circumstances surrounding the September 11, 20…

State and Justice Departments officials as well as cancer specialists testified on the release of convicted Pan Am Flight 103 bomber Abdel Baset al-Megrahi from a Scottish prison in 2009. Sc…