A $400 million cash delivery to Iran to repay a decades-old arbitration claim may be unprecedented in recent US history, according to legal experts and diplomatic historians, raising further questions about a payment timed to help free four American prisoners in Iran.

The annual State Department report on global religious freedom paints a startling picture of Jewish life in the Middle East and how Jews in Muslim countries are oppressed by authorities and locals.

In what can be considered a highly disturbing case of American meddling in internal Israeli politics, a Senate report has found that US State Department grants were used by the group Victory 15 to unseat Israel's Prime Minister Netanyahu during the 2015 elections.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu rejected the Obama administration’s criticism of Israel’s decision to build some 600 new housing units in Jerusalem, saying that Jerusalem is 'familiar with the American position. It is not new. It is also not acceptable to us.'

A State Department official deliberately cut several minutes of videotape from a 2013 news briefing dealing with sensitive questions about secret US-Iranian nuclear negotiations before posting the footage to its website and YouTube, the agency said Wednesday.

A visa service for the US State Department and used by US embassies and consulates worldwide decided it is better to offend Israelis by pretending Israel doesn’t exist than to offend Palestinians by saying Israel does exist.

The US State Department has rejected a petition by members of Congress to close the Palestine Liberation Organization's mission in Washington as a response to the wave of Palestinian terror attacks taking place in Israel. Protest to the State Department!

Recently, the Virginia State Bar canceled a trip to Israel after BDS activists complained. Has the organization been co-opted by a virulently anti-Zionist political agenda?

Alluding to the 2014 synagogue massacre and Operation Protective Edge, the US State Department warns Americans about potential violence in Israel, without any specific reference to Islamic terrorism.

Numerous US State Department dispatches emphasize that the US Administration clearly knows of Qatar’s funding of terror. They consciously choose to ignore this.