For 50 years, Graciela Iturbide has been one of Latin America’s most acclaimed contemporary photographers, producing visceral, haunting images that paint a nuanced picture of her homeland — and the ...

A handful of World War II veterans were guests of honor at two events in Washington, D.C., in May to celebrate the 80th anniversary of the D-Day landings and the end of the war in Europe 11 months ...

President Donald Trump poses for an Oval Office photo with Paraguayan businessman and lawmaker Gustavo Leite Gusinky, the country's new ambassador in Washington. (Photo courtesy of the White House) ...

Ambassadors Lilit Makunts of Armenia and Khazar Ibrahim of Azerbaijan both tell the Washington Diplomat they look forward to a new era of peace and friendship between their two countries. (Photo by ...

From L to R: Shaikha Aisha Al Khalifa, wife of Bahrainian Ambassador Shaikh Abdulla Rashed Al Khalifa; Bich Van Tran, wife of Vietnamese Ambassador Nguyen Quoc Dzung; Fatouma Souleiman Aouled, wife of ...

Isabelle Vladoiu knows painfully well what happens when a dictatorship abuses its people. Born in Romania in the aftermath of the December 1989 overthrow and execution of Nicolae Ceaușescu, Vladoiu ...

EU Ambassador Jovita Neliupšienė hosts the Transatlantic Bridge Awards on May 7. When Lithuania’s Jovita Neliupšienė was born in 1980, in the city of Panevėžys, her country was still part of the ...

Gustavo Petro, 62, is a former M-19 guerrillero who in 1985 was captured and tortured by the army, served 18 months in prison, eventually went into politics and in 2022 won election as the 34th ...

Mpho Mophuting, Botswana's ambassador to the United States, is actively promoting manufacturing, tourism and financial services in an effort to diversify his country's economy away from diamond mining ...

United Nations Deputy Secretary-General Jan Eliasson shakes hands with Somali Prime Minister Abdi Farah Shirdon at Villa Somalia in 2013. (AMISOM Public Information / Flickr) Sweden’s Jan Eliasson is ...

Washington’s newest crop of ambassadors includes five women, two diplomats who have previously served here, and one son of a former ambassador. They represent a variety of countries ranging from the ...

Washington’s newest crop of ambassadors includes five women, two diplomats who have previously served here, and one son of a former ambassador. They represent a variety of countries ranging from the ...