While the United States tries to spy on one of the hardest targets, Burns has also tried to reopen a dialogue with Beijing, ...

Jake Sullivan faced the toughest global challenges of any national security adviser in a half-century. How did he do?

The order “risks abandoning thousands of Afghan wartime allies” who worked with Americans before the Taliban takeover ... As C.I.A. director, William J. Burns was deeply focused on China ...

It is with great sadness that we announce the passing of William J. Burns, Jr., 87, of Batavia. Bill passed away peacefully on Wednesday, Jan. 8, 2025, surrounded by his family at The Friendly ...

William Burns has witnessed firsthand a dizzying number of international crises. Early in his tenure, in the summer of 2021, he flew to Kabul to negotiate with the Taliban over the U.S. withdrawal ...

A British soldier who suffered horrific burns to 70 per cent of his body in a Taliban rocket attack is ... a friend and colleague of Prince William - clung to life in a coma for three months ...

A senior Taliban figure has urged the group’s leader to scrap education bans on Afghan women and girls, saying there is no excuse for them, in a rare public rebuke of government policy.