Who are the Tamil Tigers? Hint: This is no baseball team and they aren't playing ball.
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Crisis averted: Where there might have been massive flight, and/or a narco state, Colombia instead enjoys stability and prosperity amid a new pe
Cocaleros, paramilitaries, a dirty war and a failing state in Colombia.
She wasn't Wendy Sherman or a woman or a Jewish American. She was the United States of America.
An unwavering belief in public service propels Wendy Sherman from local activist to international negotiator.
Putting pedophiles in prison with the help of one of the world's most loathed autocrats.
Zimbabwe's elected authoritarian, Robert Mugabe, seen from a human perspective.
Charles English, 26 and new to the Foreign Service, is among the first American officials on the scene of the Jonestown massacre in 1978.
Mike Senko describes rocket-propelled grenades exploding outside his office, driving a car at gunpoint, and the reason Foreign Service Officers volunt
Tom Miller discusses the decapitation of Greece's November 17 terrorist group, and reminds us that life in the Foreign Service can be very dangerous.
Tom Miller assists refugees and reports on the opium and heroin trade in Asia's golden triangle.
Jett explains that many Americans are not aware that other countries' laws apply to them, and shares the personal rewards of a Foreign Service career.
Dennis Jett describes three warring factions in Liberia, evacuations and a flotilla of Marines off the African coast.
From Vietnam to Afghanistan, from infantry to embassy - how were these two wars the same, and how were they different?
Service in the Dominican Republic, Haiti and Nicaragua, all leading up to plans for US immigration reform that are stopped short by 9/11.
Lino Gutierrez experiences the Cuban revolution, Columbian "Violencia", and the American struggle for civil rights first hand, all before he is nine y
Says Tim: "Nobody foresaw ISIS. Nobody foresaw the failure to deal with the chasm between the Sunnis and the Shia.
Says Tim: “Nobody foresaw ISIS. Nobody foresaw the failure to deal with the chasm between the Sunnis and the Shia.
Religious police stop Gina and terrorists attack the consulate general in Jeddah.
Religious police stop Gina and terrorists attack the consulate general in Jeddah.