Adel bin Ahmed Al-Jubeir is a Saudi diplomat who is the former Saudi Minister of Foreign Affairs and the current Saudi Minister of State for Foreign Affairs. He is the second person not belonging to the House of Saud to hold the office,after Ibrahim bin Abdullah Al Suwaiyel. He previously served as the Saudi Ambassador to the United States from 2007 to 2015,and was also a foreign policy advisor to King Abdullah.
Anne Woods Patterson is an American diplomat and career Foreign Service Officer. She served as the Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern Affairs from 2013 to 2017. She previously served as United States Ambassador to Egypt until 2013 and as United States Ambassador to Pakistan from July 2007 to October 2010.
Susan Elizabeth Rice is an American diplomat,policy advisor,and public official serving as Director of the United States Domestic Policy Council since 2021. A member of the Democratic Party,Rice served as the 27th U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations from 2009 to 2013 and as the 24th U.S. National Security Advisor from 2013 to 2017.
Robert Stephen Ford is a retired American diplomat who served as the United States Ambassador to Algeria from 2006 to 2008 and the United States Ambassador to Syria from 2010 to 2014.
Francis Joseph Ricciardone Jr. is a former President of the American University in Cairo. Ambassador Ricciardone was the United States ambassador to Turkey between 2011 and 2014. Previously he was Deputy Ambassador at the U.S. Embassy in Kabul,Afghanistan. He was also on leave from the U.S. Department of State as a guest scholar at the U.S. Institute of Peace. He has served as U.S. Ambassador to the Arab Republic of Egypt (2005–2008),the Republic of the Philippines and the Republic of Palau (2002–2005). As a career member of the Senior Foreign Service,he received U.S. government and other organization awards for his work in foreign policy and program management,political reporting and analysis,and peacekeeping.
Diplomatic relations between Syria and the United States are currently non-existent;they were suspended in 2012 after the onset of the Syrian Civil War. Priority issues between the two states include the Arab–Israeli conflict,the Golan Heights annexation,and the Iraq War.
Robert Stephen "Steve" Beecroft is an American diplomat and attorney. He served as United States Ambassador to Egypt from December 2014 to July 2017. He previously served as United States Ambassador to Iraq and United States Ambassador to Jordan.
Gene Allan Cretz is a career diplomat who retired from the Senior Foreign Service in 2015. Before retiring,he was the U.S. Ambassador to Ghana.
Maura Connelly is an American diplomat. President Obama nominated Ambassador Connelly,a 25-year veteran of the Foreign Service,as the U.S. Ambassador to the Republic of Lebanon in June 2010. Ambassador Connelly was confirmed by the Senate in August 2010 and sworn in by Secretary of State Hillary Clinton in September 2010. She officially presented her diplomatic credentials to Lebanese President Michel Sleiman as the 25th U.S. Ambassador to the Republic of Lebanon on September 15,2010.
International reactions to the Egyptian revolution of 2011 refer to external responses to the events that took place in Egypt between 25 January and 10 February 2011,as well as some of the events after the collapse of the government of Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak,such as Mubarak's trial. The reactions have generally been either measured or supportive of the Egyptian people,with most governments and organisations calling for non-violent responses on both sides and peaceful moves towards reform. Whilst the protesters called for Mubarak to step down immediately,most foreign governments stopped short of this demand,at least during the early phases of the protests,due to realpolitik concerns about the consequences of a power vacuum on the stability of Egypt specifically and to the wider Middle East as a whole. Some Middle Eastern leaders expressed support for Mubarak. Meanwhile many governments issued travel advisories and evacuated their citizens from the country.
On 9 September 2011,several thousand protesters forcibly entered the Israeli embassy in Giza,Greater Cairo,after breaking down a recently constructed wall built to protect the compound. The protesters later broke into a police station and stole weapons,resulting in police using tear gas in an attempt to protect themselves. The demonstrators eventually broke through the security wall and entered the offices of the embassy. Six members of the embassy staff,who had been in a "safe room",were evacuated from the site by Egyptian commandos,following the personal intervention of United States President Barack Obama.
Following the 2012 diplomatic missions attacks that began on September 11,2012,many nations and public officials released statements. Widespread early news coverage said that the protests were a spontaneous response to an online preview of Innocence of Muslims, a movie considered offensive to Muslims. Later consideration of the Libya attack's complexity,of statements made by some Libyan officials,and of the potentially symbolic date fueled speculation of preplanned efforts. U.S. missions in Cairo,Egypt,and Benghazi,Libya,were attacked during the first day of the protest.
Stuart E. Jones is an American diplomat. He previously served as the United States Ambassador to Iraq from 2014 to 2016,and as the United States Ambassador to Jordan from July 21,2011,to July 28,2014.
Matthew H. Tueller is an American diplomat serving as the United States Ambassador to Iraq. A career United States Foreign Service officer,he previously served as the United States Ambassador to Kuwait and Yemen.
Gina Kay Abercrombie-Winstanley(born 1957) is an American diplomat who served as U.S. ambassador to Malta from 2012 to 2016. She was nominated by President Barack Obama and confirmed on March 29,2012. She was sworn in on April 18,2012,and presented her credentials to George Abela,President of Malta,on May 2,2012. On April 12,2021 she was sworn in to serve as chief diversity and inclusion officer for the United States Department of State.
Amy Jane Hyatt is an American diplomat who served as United States Ambassador to Palau from 2015 to 2020. She was nominated by President Barack Obama and confirmed by the Senate in December 2014.
Jonathan Raphael Cohen is an American diplomat serving as the United States Ambassador to Egypt. He previously served as the United States Deputy Representative to the United Nations. From August 2016 to June 2018 he served as a Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for European and Eurasian Affairs. He was nominated by President Donald Trump in early 2018 to become United States Deputy Representative to the United Nations and was unanimously confirmed by the Senate on May 24,2018. On January 1,2019,Cohen assumed acting duties of Ambassador to the United Nations following the resignation of Nikki Haley the previous day;with the installation of her successor Kelly Craft in September,he relinquished those duties.
