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NEW YORK, April 13, 2017 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — AJC is urging Secretary of State Tillerson to fill without further delay the position of Special Envoy to Monitor and Combat Anti-Semitism. The vital position, created by Congress in 2004, has been vacant since the new Administration took office in January. “For reasons of substance and perception this […]

As a group of US navy ships led by an aircraft carrier head to the Korean peninsula, Pyongyang has accused Washington of pushing the region to the brink of war. The North Korean foreign ministry said the US was bringing “huge nuclear strategic assets” to the area. Tension is rising amid concerns the North may

North Korea’s vice foreign minister on Friday blamed President Donald Trump for building up a “vicious cycle” of tensions on the Korean Peninsula, saying that his “aggressive” tweets were “making trouble.” In an exclusive interview with The Associated Press in Pyongyang, Vice Minister Han Song Ryol also warned the U.S. against provoking North Korea militarily,

American bombers deployed one of the largest, non-nuclear munitions in the U.S. arsenal on an Islamic State tunnel complex in eastern Afghanistan for the first time, possibly indicating an uptick in operations against the terror group’s faction in the country. An MC-130 Combat Talon assigned to U.S. Air Force Special Operations Command dropped a GBU-43,