Veteran diplomat and lawyer Professor Tommy Koh will retire from the foreign service at the end of August, following a ...

In an interview with JI, Hood reflected on a career included stints working on Iran policy, relations with Gulf states during ...

The State Department, which is nominally responsible for creating, curating and advocating for the policies of the United States that involve other nations, has about 80,000 employees. Approximately ...

Less than 10 weeks after the State Department laid off hundreds of Foreign Service Officers, citing bureaucratic bloat, it is beginning to bring nearly 100 new ones on. Last week, the Office of Talent ...

WASHINGTON, June 25 (Reuters) - The American Foreign Service Association urged the State Department on Wednesday to not go ahead with a planned overhaul that likely would see around 2,000 layoffs, ...

Ruth A. Davis, who grew up in the segregated South and rose through the Foreign Service to become the first Black woman to lead its training and personnel operations and achieve the rank of career ...

Deputy Assistant Secretary Gabriel Escobar of the U.S. Department of State discussed the importance of diversity in foreign service and how diversity has shaped the State Department at Georgetown’s ...

The U.S. Agency of International Development is expected to be reduced to about 290 workers from the more than 5,000 foreign service officers, civil servants and personal service contractors it ...

The State Department on Tuesday officially terminated the employment of approximately 200 foreign service members as part of a reduction in force (RIF), part of more than 1,300 layoffs at the agency ...

Usually, 2/3 of U.S. ambassadors come from the career foreign service. But the Trump administration has named mostly political ambassadors, leaving senior career diplomats with few prospects. The ...