Tactical Training

A SPEAR team member assigned to Embassy Niamey does pull-ups during the 2022 SPEAR Summit Challenge in Thiès, Senegal, in December 2022. Photo by Vince Crawley
A SPEAR team member assigned to Embassy Niamey does pull-ups during the 2022 SPEAR Summit Challenge in Thiès, Senegal, in December 2022. Photo by...

Leveraging Innovation

Members of the IRM Doha team pose for a photo, Feb. 6. From left, standing: Sana Al Batayneh, Ahmad Azizi, Vincent Fernandez, Nashwa Basheer, Hakim Addeche, Moaad Badawi, Abdel Fatah Suliman, Rami Zeitawi, and James Gallup. From left, seated: Maha Maarouf, and Chickelle Woody. Photo by Wilson Umeh
Members of the IRM Doha team pose for a photo, Feb. 6. Standing, from left: Sana Al Batayneh, Ahmad Azizi, Vincent Fernandez, Nashwa Basheer,...

Aware and Prepared

FACT students seek cover from a simulated terror attack during the course's final training exercise, Dec. 9, 2022. Story and photos by Isaac D. Pacheco Traveling...

Award for Corporate Excellence

From left: CEO and co-founder of Drinkwell Minhaj Chowdhury, Interim CEO and Chairman of the Board of Gap Bob Martin, Secretary of State Antony Blinken, CEO and Managing Director of Anova Blane Olsen, Chief Government Affairs Officer of Intel Bruce Andrews, and Assistant Secretary for Economic and Business Affairs Ramin Toloui pose together after the ACE ceremony, Dec. 9, 2022. Photo by Freddie Everett
By Christian Bonadio The 2022 Secretary of State’s Award for Corporate Excellence (ACE)—organized by the Bureau of Economic and Business Affairs’ Office of Commercial and...

Secure Games

DSS Special Agents and World Cup Field Liaison Officers Casey Shearing (top row, second from left), Katherine Johnston (top row, third from left), Rachel Wolf-Hubbard (bottom row, third from left), and Tiffany Toteno (bottom row, far right) and their U.S. Soccer Federation counterparts hold up an American flag before the start of the FIFA World Cup match between the United States and Netherlands at Khalifa International Stadium, Doha, Dec. 3, 2022. Photo by Eric Weiner
DSS Special Agents and World Cup Field Liaison Officers Casey Shearing (top row, second from left), Katherine Johnston (top row, center), Rachel Wolf-Hubbard (bottom...

New Heights

U.S. Ambassador to Peru Lisa Kenna (far right) and the climbing group reach for the sky on the way up Mount Mismi, Dec. 4, 2022. Photo by Victor Vílchez
U.S. Ambassador to Peru Lisa Kenna (far right in blue hat) and the climbing group reach for the sky on the way up Mount...

Art Anniversary

Artist Courtney Mattison sits beneath her site-specific commission for Embassy Jakarta, called “Confluence (Our Changing Seas V).” View the entire version of "Confluence (Our...

Hilltop View

U.S. Helsinki Commission Policy Advisor Alex Tiersky (second from left) stands with witnesses from the My "Hell" in Russian Captivity hearing, Sept. 15, 2022....

Red Village

At a groundbreaking event for the renovation of a traditional Jewish home in the Red Village, Azerbaijan was celebrated by the U.S. Ambassador to Azerbaijan Lee Litzenberger (far right) and Israeli Ambassador to Azerbaijan George Deek (foreground; second from left), alongside community leaders, May 23, 2022. Photo by Michael Miller
At a groundbreaking event for the renovation of a traditional Jewish home in the Red Village, Quba, Azerbaijan, was celebrated by the U.S. Ambassador...

Great Distinction

Award winners stand for the national anthem at the awards ceremony at the Harry S Truman Building. Dec. 7, 2022. State Department photo By Mahvish...