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Home | News & Events | U.S. sanctions Iranian regime officials involved in kidnapping FILE - In this March 6, 2012, file photo, an FBI poster showing a composite image of former FBI agent Robert Levinson. At right, is a photo of how he would look like after five years in captivity, and an image, center, taken from the video, released by his kidnappers, and a picture before he was ki FILE – In this March 6, 2012, file photo, an FBI poster showing a composite image of former FBI agent Robert Levinson. At right, is a photo of how he would look like after five years in captivity, a...

Home | News & Events | China’s leaders expand use of forced labor Slogans promoting national unity adorn the barbed wire walls of a shoe factory where Uyghurs work in eastern China.(© Anna Fifield/The Washington Post/Getty Images) Slogans promoting national unity adorn the barbed wire walls of a shoe factory where Uyghurs work in eastern China.(© Anna Fifield/The Washington Post/Getty Images) The People’s Republic of China is expanding its use of forced labor, increasing the risk that countries may unknowingly import products made by people forced or otherwise coerced to wor...

MICHAEL R. POMPEO, SECRETARY OF STATE Five years ago last Friday, the United Nations Security Council unanimously adopted Resolution 2254, firmly laying out the only path for an enduring resolution to the Syrian conflict.  The United States and the vast majority of the international community remain committed to this dignified plan for ending the suffering of the Syrian people. The Assad regime, supported by its enablers and allies, however, refuses to end its needless, brutal war against the Syrian people, stalling efforts to reach a politi...

MICHAEL R. POMPEO, SECRETARY OF STATE The United States strongly condemns the latest attack by Iran-backed militias on the International Zone in Baghdad.  While no Embassy personnel were harmed, the attack caused at least one Iraqi civilian casualty and damaged Iraqi civilian property.  We wish those hurt a speedy recovery. As Iraq struggles with COVID-19 and an increasingly dire economic crisis, Iran-backed militias are the most serious impediment to helping Iraq return to peace and prosperity.  The same militias targeting diplomatic facilities are stealing Iraqi state resources on a ...

MICHAEL R. POMPEO, SECRETARY OF STATE It has now been a year since China first identified a patient in Wuhan stricken with an unknown pneumonia, now known as COVID-19. Since then, the United States and other free nations, such as Germany and the United Kingdom, have led a remarkable and unprecedented vaccine development effort that is delivering hope across the world. This is no accident. Time and again, democracies that value transparency, the rule of law, property rights, and free-market capitalism have produced innovative solutions to public health crises. Freedom unleashes human potential...