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ABC News More than 30 U.S. citizens were returned to the United States from Haiti on a flight chartered by the U.S. State Department Sunday, a department spokesperson said. One day after the State Department posted its plans for the flight on X, asking interested U.S. passport holders to register on an intake form, the […]

KeithBinns/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — The U.S. State Department is encouraging American citizens to leave Haiti following an ongoing spate of gang violence. A series of coordinated gang attacks began against a number of government institutions last week, with prisons, dozens of police stations and the international airport all targeted. The violence has paralyzed the country, […]

pawel.gaul/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — The State Department is temporarily pausing new funding for the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East while reviewing allegations that 12 UNRWA employees were involved in the Oct. 7 attack on Israel, according to State Department spokesman Matthew Miller. Secretary of State Antony […]

David Dee Delgado/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — When Abood Okal, a 36-year-old American father trapped in Gaza, received word from U.S. State Department officials informing him the Rafah crossing into Egypt would likely open on Oct. 21 for the first time since Hamas launched a surprise terror attack on Israel two weeks before, he thought the […]

Igor Golovniov/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — U.S. citizens traveling abroad are urged to “exercise increased caution” in light of the heightened global tensions spurred by Hamas’ terror attack on Israel and the unfolding Israel-Hamas war, the State Department said in a new advisory on Thursday. “Due to increased tensions in various locations around the […]

Anton Petrus/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — The State Department released a declassified version of its long-anticipated report Friday examining the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan, unveiling the harshest critique of any of the administration’s efforts to examine its own handling of the crisis to date. “The decisions of both President Trump and President Biden to end […]