U.S. Officers Unable to Vet Visa-Seeking Saudis -NYT
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According to a new U.S. Department of  Homeland Security report, inadequate financing and training  have left many department officers in Saudi Arabia ill-prepared  to enforce a program intended to stop Saudi Arabia terror  suspects from receiving U.S. visas, the New York Times reported  on Friday.
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Facing staff shortages in Iraq, the State Department announced Friday that diplomats would have no choice but to accept one-year postings in the hostile environment or face losing their jobs.
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Police were searching for an American diplomat reported missing on the Mediterranean island, authorities said Sunday.
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The United States on Tuesday froze  the assets of two Saudi nationals for allegedly providing  support to al Qaeda, and has asked the United Nations to take  similar action.
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Foreign Service officers looking for pay equity will have to keep waiting.
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The American-trained police force in Afghanistan is largely incapable of carrying out routine law enforcement work, according to a joint report by the Pentagon and State Department, The New York Times reported today. The Times said that according to the report, which was issued two weeks ago, managers of the $1.1 billion training program cannot say how many officers are ...
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A US embassy spokesman in Kiev yesterday said a visa had been denied to Grigory Surkis, head of Ukraine's football federation and partner in business and politics of Viktor Medvedchuk, presidential ...
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The U.S. State Department is unable to account for most of $1.2 billion in funding that it gave to DynCorp International to train Iraqi police, a government report said Tuesday.
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The United States could scrap visa requirements for Czechs, Greeks and Estonians by the end of this year, an official at U.S. Department of Homeland Security said on Wednesday.
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The United States has denied entry to   four Egyptian Muslim clerics sent to Florida to officiate at   religious events during the approaching fasting month of   Ramadan, Cairo airport officials said on Friday.
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Twenty-one countries that had been denied participation in U.S. military training programs are now eligible to take part again under a presidential waiver announced Monday by the White House.
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Sudan appears to be balking at granting a visa to the new U.S. special envoy for Sudan, Andrew Natsios, and is restricting the movement of all U.S. officials to Khartoum, the State Department said on Friday.
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The United States reopened its embassy in the Saudi capital Riyadh on Wednesday but its consulate in Jeddah remained closed two days after it was attacked by al Qaeda militants, a spokesman said.
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NEW YORK, 24 September 2004 - In a major setback for the Bush administration, a Saudi-American captured in Afghanistan is to be released from a military prison without facing any criminal charges and will be allowed to return home to Saudi Arabia.
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Saudi Arabia tried on Tuesday to discover how militants penetrated the elaborate defenses of a US consulate in what al Qaeda said was a reprisal
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JEDDAH, Saudi Arabia  - Prominent Saudis dismissed  U.S. accusations of severe violations of religious freedom in  the kingdom and said on Thursday that the criticisms were  politically motivated.
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The State Department has acknowledged long delays from âunprecedented demandâ after new rules requiring passports for travelers returning from Mexico, Canada and the Caribbean.