A handful of World War II veterans were guests of honor at two events in Washington, D.C., in May to celebrate the 80th anniversary of the D-Day landings and the end of the war in Europe 11 months ...

John Shaw is a contributing writer for the Diplomat and is the director of the Paul Simon Public Policy Institute at Southern Illinois University. Sweden’s Jan Eliasson is one of the most skilled and ...

It’s not every day a politician becomes a diplomat, and then after only a year decides to switch careers entirely and ...

Presidential motorcades, huge monuments and noisy political protests are all part of the fabric of life in Washington, D.C. So are foreign diplomats and their license plates—which, like in any world ...

Large container ship in a dock at Antwerp harbor. (Photo by Anneka/Shutterstock) Neliupšienė, noting that the EU-US economic partnership makes up 42% of global GDP, warned that Trump’s tariffs will ...

St. Lucia's former ambassador to the United States, Joseph Edsel Edmunds, displays his acrylic paintings at Art Impact USA’s first annual International 2016 Art Exhibition in Washington DC. Edmunds, ...

Shaikh Abdulla bin Rashid Al Khalifa, Bahrain's envoy to the United States, is the winner of NUSACC's 2022 "Ambassador of the Year" award. (Photo by The Washington Diplomat) At only 290 square miles, ...

President Bill Clinton kisses Esther Coopersmith in this 2018 autographed photo. Along the way, she has managed to fill every available space of a large downstairs red room with memorabilia, including ...

The newest embassy in Washington belongs to a tropical paradise that could soon be doomed by climate change. The Republic of Maldives is an Indian Ocean archipelago of 1,192 coral atolls, 80% of which ...

The United States is currently extending protection to roughly 180,000 refugees, according to the Migration Policy Institute.By and large, the first welcome these war-scarred individuals receive to ...

Many in the United States look beyond their borders and see a dangerous world with raging wars, surging violence and deepening instability. But a new report by the Eurasia Group, a leading political ...

The French Embassy in Washington in May celebrated two pivotal events in France’s – and the world’s – history: the 79 th anniversary of the end of World War II in Europe and the 80 th anniversary of ...