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The United States established diplomatic relations with Iraq in 1930 and opened a legation in Baghdad. The legation was upgraded to an embassy in 1946. A new building was designed by Josep Lluís Sert in 1955 and completed in 1957, with its main priority on keeping the building cool rather than to ensure security.
U.S. Department of State Facilities and Areas of Jurisdictions. The United States has the second most active diplomatic posts of any country in the world after the People's Republic of China, [1] including 271 bilateral posts (embassies and consulates) in 173 countries as well as 11 permanent missions to international organizations and seven other posts (as of November 2023 [2]).
In 1987, the consulate in Kobe was relocated to Osaka, initiating its operations as the Consulate-General of the United States in Osaka-Kobe. On January 1, 1985, a bomb-related terrorist incident occurred in Chuo Ward, Kobe. The incident was orchestrated by the Chūkaku-ha, a radical leftist group in Japan. Around 5:57 am, three mortar rounds ...
The U.S. embassy in Port-au-Prince is opening up a large number of non-immigrant visa appointments for Haitian nationals, warning that anyone who paid a U.S. visa fee prior to Oct. 1, 2022, will ...
Lucile Atcherson Curtis was the first woman in what became the U.S. Foreign Service. [13] Specifically, she was the first woman appointed as a United States Diplomatic Officer or Consular Officer, in 1923 (the U.S. did not establish the unified Foreign Service until 1924, at which time diplomatic and consular Officers became Foreign Service officers).
The Embassy of the United States of America in Jerusalem is the diplomatic mission of the United States of America to the State of Israel. It is located in Talpiot, a neighborhood in southeastern Jerusalem. In mid-October 2018, Mike Pompeo, the Secretary of State under the Trump administration, declared that the new embassy would be merging ...
The Consulate General of United States, Guangzhou ( Chinese : 美国驻广州总领事馆) is one of seven American diplomatic and consular posts in China. It is one of America's earliest diplomatic posts in the Far East. [1] The consulate serves the South China region, covering the provinces of Guangdong, Hainan and Fujian, and the Guangxi ...
United States Embassy in Manama. / 26.20472°N 50.57083°E / 26.20472; 50.57083. The Embassy of the United States to Bahrain is the diplomatic mission of the United States in Bahrain. The building is located in Zinj, a district of the capital, Manama. [1] The post of U.S. Ambassador to Bahrain is currently held by Steven C. Bondy .