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Senator wants answers about alleged CIA payments

Corker, the top Republican on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, says in a letter sent Monday to Secretary of State John Kerry and Rajiv Shah, administrator of the U.S. Agency for...

In wake of devastating factory fire, U.S. senators urge reforms in Bangladesh...

At a hearing of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, senators leveled a new round of harsh criticism on an industry they said has consistently failed to reform its operations.

House GOP defense bill blocks Guantanamo closing

The legislation does not endorse providing weapons to the rebel forces in Syria, as the Senate Foreign Relations Committee did last month.

Kerry makes first Latin America trip in office

The OAS often is criticized in the United States, and Kerry wrote a scathing editorial about its failures and need to reform three years ago while he was the chairman of the Senate Foreign...

Nawaz Sharif's victory in Pakistan elections likely to change nature of U.S....

He toured frequently as chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee and is remembered for shedding tears of sympathy for the 20 million Pakistanis rendered homeless by devastating floods...

Libya ambassador nominee vows sufficient security

Deborah Kay Jones tells the Senate Foreign Relations Committee the ambassador is the principal security officer.

Corker: US moving closer to arming Syrian rebels

A Republican member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee is predicting the U.S. will soon be "arming the rebels" seeking to overthrow Syria's Bashar Assad.

Despite political clamor over Obama's 'red line' in Syria, no clear evidence it ...

On Monday, Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman Robert Menendez, D-N.

Senate chairman pushed for arming Syrian rebels

The chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee is calling for the United States to provide weapons to vetted Syrian opposition groups battling President Bashar Assad's forces in the...

Menendez' bill could have aided donor's investment

Instead, the connection between the two men's interests in natural gas is the latest example of the close symmetry between the senator - who recently rose to become chairman of the Senate Foreign...

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Obama to step up military support of Syrian rebels

Sen. Chris Murphy, D-Conn., a member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, condemned the...

WASHINGTON: US mulls withdrawal of Bangladesh trade privileges

"No one will want to wear a piece of clothing made in Bangladesh if it's on the blood of workers...

U.S. growing weary of Syrian opposition

In April, Robert Ford, the U.S. ambassador to Syria, told a Senate Foreign Relations Committee...