Author: Joel Gehrke, Washington Examiner

U.S. military forces “don’t know how to defend” against China and Russia’s most advanced missile systems, a senior U.S. diplomat has acknowledged. This comes after a shocking report that China tested a nuclear-capable hypersonic missile earlier this year. The Chinese government has disputed the report, claiming they were testing a spacecraft instead. “Hypersonic technology is…

Iran is wasting time with a push for a sidebar meeting with European Union officials in Brussels, according to U.S. and European officials. “We don’t think it’s necessary,” State Department spokesman Ned Price told reporters Monday. “The destination we seek is in Vienna, not an intermediate step in Brussels.” Iranian officials shifted last week from…

Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov has suspended his team’s diplomatic mission to NATO and closed the trans-Atlantic alliance’s two offices in Moscow in the latest dispute about diplomatic behavior and intelligence operations. “We regret these steps,” NATO spokeswoman Oana Lungescu said, referring to the suspension of the Russian mission and the closure of NATO’s military…

President Joe Biden’s point man for international climate talks “appears to be profiting from slave labor,” according to a prominent Senate Republican who wants John Kerry ousted over reported investments that benefit a Chinese surveillance company. “Nothing is going right for President Biden or our nation lately … And now, the president’s top climate adviser…

Iranian officials have stymied yet another Western effort to jump-start nuclear negotiations, a delay drawing public criticism from Russia as U.S. and Israeli officials contemplate military intervention. Secretary of State Antony Blinken’s team made an ominous public appeal for Iran to return to Vienna for the seventh round of negotiations over the renewal of the…

Secretary of State Antony Blinken faces congressional pressure to take “seriously” a series of mysterious health crises described as “Havana syndrome” that represents an “unmitigated national security threat,” according to senior senators in both parties. “We are extremely alarmed that reports of these incidents continue to grow,” Senate Foreign Relations Chairman Bob Menendez, a New…

Greek Foreign Minister Nikos Dendias underscored the persistent “threat of war” with Turkey in a meeting with Secretary of State Antony Blinken at the signing of a deal to upgrade defense cooperation between Athens and Washington. “Greece is facing a casus belli, a threat with war if it exercises its sovereign rights and, I have…

President Joe Biden’s administration wants the legal authority for military counterterrorism operations in Afghanistan “if necessary” in light of the withdrawal of U.S. forces and the Taliban’s victory over the U.S.-backed government in Kabul. “We need to look to make sure that we have all the authorities that we would need for any potential contingency,…

A hearing billed as the first part of a major evaluation of the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan featured criticism of Secretary of State Antony Blinken and calls for his resignation. “Your bizarre abandoning of Bagram Airfield led directly to 13 Marines murdered in Kabul,” Rep. Joe Wilson, a South Carolina Republican, told Blinken after endorsing…

President Joe Biden’s administration assessed “thousands” of lawful permanent residents of the United States remain in Afghanistan following the tumultuous evacuation of Kabul, according to Secretary of State Antony Blinken. “I think the best estimates are that there’s several thousand green card holders in Afghanistan,” Blinken told the House Foreign Affairs Committee on Monday. That…