Michele Kelemen

Human rights advocacy is changing tones under Biden. Secretary of State Antony Blinken says he's prioritizing promoting basic freedoms, scorning Trump's attempt to apply a hierarchy to human rights.

Secretary of State Antony Blinken gave his first big speech in Brussels on repairing alliances, contrasting Mike Pompeo's 2018 speech that took aim at the EU, UN and other international organizations.

The U.S. and Iran say they want to revive the 2015 nuclear deal that the Trump administration pulled out of — but they're stuck on who takes the first steps.

The leaders of U.S., Japan, Australia and India met at a virtual summit today where they announced a major initiative to get 1 billion vaccines to fight the coronavirus pandemic in Asia.

The Biden administration will offer temporary protected status to people who fear returning to Myanmar after the military coup and ensuing suppression of protesters that has killed at least 70 people.

The president was joined virtually by the leaders of Japan, India and Australia, in his first multilateral leaders' meeting. They launched a plan to boost vaccine production and distribution in Asia.

In a speech, U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken described China as the Biden administration's biggest political test.

The Foreign Service Institute, which trains U.S. diplomats, went virtual during the pandemic. It's likely to stay that way, making it easier for foreign and civil service officers to get training.

The Biden administration pledges a foreign policy that delivers to middle-class Americans. Linking up to locales across the country — outside D.C. — could help with that, according to a new report.

Secretary of State Antony Blinken is making the global rounds virtually, with Canada and Mexico as his first stops.

The Biden administration says it won't tolerate Iran holding Americans in an unjust and unlawful manner.

President Biden sought to turn the page on the Trump administration's "America First" ethos in a speech to the Munich Security Conference where he tried to repair frayed ties with European allies.

The Biden administration has taken its first steps to reopen diplomacy with Iran.

President Biden's Department of State says it can both push for human rights and democracy in Egypt and continue to supply the country with weapons. That's the way it explained its approach this week.

As a political crisis intensifies in Haiti, the country's ambassador is warning the U.S. and others not to meddle saying "you break it, you own it."

The Biden administration announced its plans to rejoin the U.N. Human Rights Council three years after the U.S. withdrew from the organization.

President Biden visited the State Department on Thursday. He announced a new envoy for Yemen and attempted to boost morale for the department and show support for Secretary Antony Blinken.

There's been widespread condemnation of the imprisonment of Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny, but there are only limited options for the U.S. to try to influence Russia's internal repression.

In a deal with the Taliban last year, the Trump administration agreed to withdraw U.S. troops by May, but the Biden administration says the Taliban isn't keeping its end of the bargain.

Newly confirmed Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Linda Thomas-Greenfield, nominee for ambassador to the United Nations, are stressing a return to diplomacy and multilateralism in their messaging.