Brig. Gen. Kirk Smith, formerly director of force management and deployment at the U.S. Special Operations Command, has been appointed as deputy commander of the Special Operations Joint Task Force-Afghanistan, the Defense Department
MoreMichele Thoren Bond serves as an assistant secretary at the State Department and heads the bureau of consular affairs. Bond, a career member of the Senior Foreign Service, leads a team of approximately
MoreDefense Secretary Chuck Hagel discussed the U.S. government’s efforts to bolster relations in Asia Pacific and other regions as well as the capabilities of partner nations during a recent meeting with the U.S. European
MoreThe Obama administration is set to nominate Robert Stephen Beecroft, currently the U.S. envoy to Iraq, as ambassador in Egypt, Reuters reported Wednesday. Lesley Wroughton and Missy Ryan write that Beecroft would
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President Barack Obama has begun his tour of Asia by first visiting Japan amid the countryâs growing territorial dispute with China, Bloomberg reported Tuesday. David Lynch writes President Obama will later visit
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The U.S. and Afghanistan have reached a security partnership agreement that will take effect after the U.S. pulls out its military troops from the Central Asian country in 2014, the Los Angeles
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