US diplomat Donald Lu who had threatened Pakistani Ambassador served as a Political Officer at the US Consulate in Peshawar from 1992 to 1994 and is fluent in Urdu. He is considered a senior diplomat for South Asian affairs. According to the US State Department website, Donald Lu ...

Twelve ballistic missiles" fired from outside Iraq on Sunday targeted the capital of autonomous Iraqi Kurdistan, Arbil, and the US consulate there, Kurdish security forces said. "The missiles were fired outside the borders of Iraq and Kurdistan, (coming) more precisely from the east," a press ...

ISLAMABAD-Beijing, Chinese authorities took possession of the closed US consulate in Chengdu on Monday, the foreign ministry said, after it was ordered to shut last week by Beijing."At 10am on July 27th, according to the Chinese side's request, the US consulate in Chengdu was closed. Afterwards, ...

ISLAMABAD-China seizes US consulate in Chengdu in retaliation for its ouster from consulate in Houston, Texas. China’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs said in a statement, the US consulate in Sichuan province was closed at 10 a.m. Meanwhile, a US State Department spokesperson has shown their ...

MEXICO - A US Consulate has come under explosives attack hours before high profile visits. The US consulate in Mexico's second city, Guadalajara, was attacked with explosives hours before a visit to the country by Vice President Mike Pence and first daughter Ivanka Trump, authorities said ...

MOSCOW - Russia on Monday responded to the US government's decision to close its Seattle consulate by asking its Twitter followers which US consulate general they would close, if they had the power to do so. "(The) US administration ordered the closure of the Russian Consulate in Seattle. What US ...

KARACHI: A large number of Islami Jamiat Talaba (IJT) supporters staging anti-US rally massed outside US consulate.Amid heavy police deployment, all roads leading to the M.T Khan Road and Mai Kolachi Road were already sealed with shipping containers; however, participants of the rally managed to ...

ANKARA - Amid US-Turkey tensions over the arrest of a US consulate employee in Instanbul over alleged links to an Islamic cleric accused of plotting the failed military coup attempt last year, a warrant for another worker has been issued after the US suspended visa services in Turkey.Turkey has ...

ANKARA - Turkish authorities have arrested a US Consulate General staffer in the country’s largest city of Istanbul on charges of contacts with members of a movement led by US-based opposition cleric, Fethullah Gulen, whom the Ankara government accuses of masterminding last July’s coup ...

The United States Consulate General in Karachi has temporarily cancelled all official and unofficial travel of U.S. government personnel traveling to and from Jinnah International Airport Karachi until further notice.In a warning issued on Tuesday, the US consulate advised its citizens that the ...