Mexican government officials tried to downplay a large-scale cartel shootout in the border city of Nuevo Laredo, Tamaulipas, that went on for hours. The shootout triggered a security warning from the U.S. consulate in that city.
The man responsible for establishing a reign of terror in part of Mexico’s northern border region pleaded guilty to several drug trafficking and money laundering charges in a U.S. federal court. He is facing a possible life term in prison. That cartel boss is not only responsible for ordering hundreds of forced disappearances and establishing clandestine gravesites in northern Mexico but his gunmen are directly linked to a brazen attack on the U.S. Consulate building in Nuevo Laredo.
State Department Matthew Miller struggled Wednesday to explain why the Biden-Harris administration wants to put a U.S. consulate to the Palestinians on sovereign Israeli territory, over the objections of the Israeli government.
Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador announced that his country was pausing relations with the U.S. and Canadian embassies in Mexico following letters and statements. The president says diplomatic officials from both countries had spoken out against his proposed judicial reform, which calls for yearly open elections for all federal judges.
The U.S. Department of State issued a new travel alert about cartel gunmen kidnapping American passengers from buses traveling through the border city of Reynosa, Tamaulipas. The advisory comes even after Mexican border state officials dismissed a prior alert claiming the region has minimal crime statistics.
Mexican government officials publicly rejected a recent travel warning issued by the U.S. Department of State in the border city of Matamoros, Tamaulipas. The warning advised U.S. citizens not to travel by bus, citing targeted kidnappings of American citizens and residents in the neighboring border city of Reynosa. Mexican officials continue to claim the border region is safe, even though the region is under the control of the Gulf Cartel and continues to go through a hyperviolent turf war.
The United States Consulate in Matamoros, Tamaulipas, is sounding the alarm about the targeting of U.S. citizens, residents, and people with connections in the U.S. for ransom kidnappings while traveling on passenger buses.
A gunman and a security guard were killed in a shooting Wednesday at the American consulate in Saudi Arabia.
The White House walked back remarks by National Security Advisor, Jake Sullivan on Tuesday after the Russia hoaxer errantly claimed that President Joe Biden is seeking to open a new U.S. consulate in “East Jerusalem” for Palestinians.
Following Iran claiming responsibility for a missile barrage that struck early Sunday near a sprawling U.S. consulate complex in the northern Iraqi city of Erbil, Republicans called for an end to nuclear talks with the Islamic Republic.
BAGHDAD — As many as 12 missiles struck near a sprawling U.S. consulate complex in the northern Iraqi city of Irbil on Sunday, in what a U.S. defense official and an Iraqi official said was a strike launched from neighboring Iran.
A federal court in El Paso convicted two Mexican gunmen for shooting a group of U.S. Consulate workers in Ciudad Juarez in 2010. The gunmen are part of the Barrio Azteca gang which, at the time, was working with the Juarez Cartel to fight against the Sinaloa Cartel for control of the lucrative border city.
The Biden administration’s plans to reopen the U.S. Consulate in Jerusalem have been shelved until after Israel’s upcoming elections, Axios reported Wednesday.
Hong Kong police arrested a man on Tuesday after he allegedly attacked a U.S. consulate general employee, “leaving him bleeding in the street” outside the consulate.
The Chinese government seized the building that formerly housed the U.S. consulate in Chengdu on Monday and allowed a communist crowd to convene outside the premises to wave Chinese Communist flags, set off fireworks, chant slogans and take selfies.
The U.S. State Department made tentative plans to reopen its consulate in the Chinese city of Wuhan on Wednesday, while Chinese state media brusquely told them not to bother, since the U.S. has lobbed so many “vicious slanders” at China over the coronavirus pandemic.
The U.S. Department of State ordered employees of the Consulate in Wuhan, China, to evacuate from the city in wake of the spreading novel coronavirus. The order comes as Chinese authorities expand containment responses designed to slow or stop the rapidly spreading virus that has so far killed at least 41 people.
So far, this is the anti-Benghazi. Trump told us the truth. Trump sent immediate help. So far, security has been adequate enough to keep our people in Iraq safe.
The United States Consulate General in Ciudad Juárez, Chihuahua, issued a security alert prohibiting U.S. government employees from traveling to the state’s capital city. The newly released travel restriction is in effect until further notice.
The U.S. government released a surveillance video from a recent grenade attack at the U.S. Consulate in Guadalajara. The FBI released the video to seek help in identifying two of the gunmen believed to have played a role in the attack.
JERUSALEM — Israel’s Shin Bet security service says it has uncovered a plot to target Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
President Donald Trump promised to move the U.S. embassy to Jerusalem, but a recent diplomatic spat showed why it has been so hard for him to do so.
JERUSALEM – Speaking from Jerusalem in a Breitbart News exclusive interview, Congressman Ron DeSantis (R-FL) said he believes President Trump will announce the relocation of the U.S. embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem before the end of May.
The United States is expected to build its biggest consulate building in Erbil, the capital of the autonomous Kurdistan Region in northern Iraq that has been pushing for independence.
Following a Taliban suicide-bomb attack on the U.S. military base at Bagram Air Field that killed four people and wounded 16 others, and a truck-bomb attack on the German consulate in Mazar-e-Sharif that killed 7 and wounded over 100, the U.S. Embassy in Kabul has announced that it will close temporarily.
The U.S. State Department has ordered civilian family members of the consulate staff in Istanbul to leave Turkey entirely, due to escalating terrorist threats.
Turkish authorities have arrested and detained a suspected Islamic State militant for allegedly planning a suicide attack on the U.S. Consulate in Istanbul, Turkey.
Mientras la violencia sigue azotando esta ciudad fronteriza, el Consulado de Estados Unidos ha elevado los niveles de seguridad en sus instalaciones ante alguna posible situación de riesgo como las que se han hecho comunes en esta región.
As cartel violence continues to plague this border city, the U.S Consulate General in this city has beefed up the security measures in its offices in likely preparation for any future violent incident like the ones that have become all too common in this region.
A dos semanas y media de que un grupo de sicarios secuestro un camión con 11,500 visas destinadas a los consulados de Monterrey y Guadalajara, el Gobierno Mexicano se ha mantenido callado al respecto.
The Mexican government has remained silent for two and a half weeks after a group of gunmen hijacked a truck carrying 11,500 U.S. visas that were destined for the American Consulates in Monterrey and Guadalajara.
The gunmen who recently hijacked a cargo truck carrying visas and documents bound for the U.S. consulates in Monterrey and Guadalajara were able to steal 11,500 border crossing cards that had just left this border city.
A group of suspected cartel gunmen hijacked a cargo truck in Northern Mexico, which carried visas intended for the U.S. Consulate offices in Monterrey and Guadalajara.
As Mexico’s security conditions continue to worsen, bipartisan Congressional leaders are demanding answers from Secretary of State John Kerry and asking him why U.S. Consulate Offices in that country should remain open given the out of control violence in that country.
MATAMOROS, Tamaulipas – A series of kidnappings in the Mexican border city of Matamoros prompted the U.S. Department of State to issue a security warning to American travelers.
