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12:22 PM, Jul 20, 2011 • By DAVID SCHENKER

There’s no blast wall around the Syrian embassy in Washington. Nor is the wrought iron gate crowned with barbed wire. During a handful of peaceful protests outside the embassy in the Kalorama neighborhood in recent months, no one threw tomatoes or attempted to scale the fence. The embassy and its staff are safe here, no matter how much most Americans might detest a government that has helped kill American troops in Iraq, while supporting attacks against U.S. allies in Lebanon, Israel and the Palestinian territories. Syrian president Bashar al-Assad’s latest outrage against the United States was the assault on the U.S. embassy in Damascus on July 11.

1:01 PM, Jul 11, 2011 • By LEE SMITH

What should the Obama administration do in the wake of the attack on the U.S. embassy in Damascus?

5:00 PM, Apr 28, 2011 • By LEE SMITH

One of the Senate's rising Republican stars is today backing calls for the Obama administration to withdraw the U.S. ambassador to Syria. "Clearly, we should be on the side of the Syrian people longing for freedom and challenging the regime's corrupt and repressive rule," writes Senator Marco Rubio.

Obama Chooses Commerce Sec. Gary Locke to Be New China Ambassador

6:30 PM, Mar 9, 2011 • By THOMAS O'BAN

President Obama announced today that Commerce secretary and former Washington state governor Gary Locke--a third generation Chinese-American--will replace possible presidential candidate Jon Huntsman in April as the U.S. ambassador to China. The Associated Press reports:

3:14 PM, Jul 9, 2010 • By DANIEL HALPER

Turkey slides toward radicalization. And Barack Obama nominates for ambassador to Turkey Francis J. Ricciardone Jr., a career diplomat with a proven track record of being weak on democracy and human rights.