Mike Pompeo

The Wall Street Journal's CEO Council annual meeting kicks off Monday evening and continues through Tuesday, featuring interviews with Elon Musk, Jake Sullivan, Cedric Richmond, Mark Milley, Deborah Birx, Anthony Fauci, Carrie Lam, Mike Pompeo and mor...

U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo visited a West Bank Israeli settlement, a capstone to the Trump administration's support for Israeli settlements in Palestinian-populated territory that President-elect Joe Biden views as an obstacle to peace....

Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said the unwinding of the U.S. sanctions regime against Iran would be "a dangerous choice," obliquely expressing concerns the Biden administration would ease the four-year pressure campaign....

Secretary of State Mike Pompeo is leaving for a Near East trip focused on religious issues and the Trump administration's diplomacy with Israel, but burdened by the election defeat that neither Mr. Pompeo nor his boss has acknowledged....

U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo ended an Asian tour focused on criticism of Beijing with a last-minute stop in Vietnam, which is tangled in disputes with its neighbor China in the South China Sea....

Secretary of State Mike Pompeo called on Indonesians to take a firm stand against China's treatment of its ethnic minority Muslims, seeking to rally support in a Muslim-majority country whose government has been wary of criticizing Beijing....

The U.S. government has secured the release of an American citizen from detention in Belarus, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said....

Secretary of State Mike Pompeo warned Sri Lanka against its tightening ties with China, as his tour of South Asia this week put a spotlight on the growing rivalry between the U.S. and China for influence in the region....

Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and Defense Secretary Mark Esper are set to visit New Delhi next week, part of an effort to cement U.S. strategic and military ties with India in their mutual rivalry with China....

Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and the foreign ministers of Japan, India and Australia pledged to uphold territorial sovereignty and freedom of navigation as rising tension between the countries and China draws them closer to counter Beijing's ambitio...

Secretary of State Mike Pompeo launched a strong attack on religious persecution in China and called on the Vatican to stand up for religious freedom there....

Secretary of State Mike Pompeo used a statehouse speech in Wisconsin on Wednesday to warn about the dangers of Chinese political influence in the U.S....

Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has said he recommended President Trump fire the State Department's former inspector general, Steve Linick, because Mr. Linick's office was the source of leaks to the news media....

Secretary of State Mike Pompeo will travel to South America this week in a bid to demonstrate U.S. support for the region's democracies, highlight its response to the coronavirus pandemic and promote regional security, the State Department said....

House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Eliot Engel has initiated contempt proceedings against Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, alleging the top U.S. diplomat has hindered a congressional inquiry into his alleged politicization of the department....

The second of four nights of the Republican National Convention included speeches from several Trump family members, including first lady Melania Trump. Here are some of the top takeaways....

The chief diplomat's message of support for Trump policies is seen by some as overstepping the traditional boundary between diplomacy and politics....

First lady Melania Trump is expected Tuesday to make a case for her husband to win four more years in the White House during the second night of the scaled-back Republican National Convention, which will also showcase Secretary of State Mike Pompeo....

Secretary of State Mike Pompeo's bid to persuade Sudan to recognize Israel appeared to be rebuffed, in a setback to the administration's efforts to expand the United Arab Emirates-Israel peace deal to other Arab nations....

Secretary of State Mike Pompeo urged Arab countries to join the United Arab Emirates in forging formal ties with Israel, as part of a U.S. diplomatic push to align old enemies in the Middle East against a common rival in Iran....

U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo called on authorities in Belarus to protect protesters and give citizens there more political freedom, the latest pressure on a regime that may now face new sanctions from the neighboring EU....

Brian Hook is stepping down from his post as the State Department's special representative for Iran, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said Thursday....

Secretary of State Mike Pompeo is set to visit Austria, the Czech Republic, Poland and Slovenia next week to discuss nuclear issues, concerns about Russia, and other matters, the State Department said....

Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said the U.S. is planning measures to address human-rights violations in China's Xinjiang region, furthering the administration's recent confrontation with Beijing....

Secretary of State Mike Pompeo is calling on the Chinese people to alter the ruling Communist Party's direction in a sharp-toned speech explaining the Trump administration's response to an assertive China....

A whistleblower complained to the State Department's internal watchdog about alleged misconduct by Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and reported that other senior State Department officials didn't act on his or her concerns, according to a copy of t...

Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said a sanctions exemption will be removed for a Russian natural gas pipeline to Germany, paving the way for new penalties to be imposed on the contentious project....

Secretary of State Mike Pompeo urged Iraq to hold to account those responsible for the assassination of a prominent Iraqi security analyst who had been threatened by Iran-backed militias, raising pressure on the new government to rein in the powerful para...

Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has said the Trump administration is considering limiting U.S. users' access to the video-messaging app. Here is a look at TikTok's user-data practices and the concerns officials are raising....

Secretary of State Mike Pompeo called on the United Nations Security Council to extend a five-year ban on conventional weapons trade with Iran, which is due to expire in October....

Secretary of State Mike Pompeo will meet with his Chinese counterpart in Hawaii on Wednesday to help manage a relationship that is strained over issues ranging from Hong Kong to the coronavirus....

The speculation over whether Mike Pompeo would run for Senate in Kansas this year ended Monday when the state's filing deadline for candidates officially passed, and the secretary of state didn't file....

Trump campaign had criticized plans for the fundraiser, saying Andrew Weissmann had tried to take down Trump's presidency. Some GOP donors have pleaded Mike Pompeo to run for an open Senate seat in Kansas, and more in Washington Wire....

Secretary of State Mike Pompeo sent a top critic a previously unreleased legal opinion concluding there was no evidence that trips he took to his home state violated federal law....

Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said the U.S. would stop allowing foreign companies to facilitate Iran's civil nuclear activities, a core provision of the 2015 international nuclear agreement....

The State Department has officially determined that Hong Kong is no longer autonomous from China, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said in a statement Wednesday that holds implications for the future of economic ties and could lead to sanctions against Chin...

Secretary of State Mike Pompeo hosted a dinner at the State Department for guests with ties to Kansas, one of a series of private events that Democrats are now scrutinizing as Mr. Pompeo comes under fire for recommending the removal of his agency's wa...

Secretary of State Mike Pompeo declined to sit for an interview with the State Department inspector general's office, which has been was investigating an unorthodox $8 billion arms sale to Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates....

The State Department inspector general ousted by President Trump was conducting an inquiry into allegations that Mike Pompeo had misused government resources....

A senior Chinese official appeared to confirm Secretary of State Mike Pompeo's allegation that Beijing had told labs in the country to destroy coronavirus samples in early January but slammed his characterization as misleading....

Secretary of State Mike Pompeo made a rare diplomatic foray to Israel amid the coronavirus pandemic to advance the Trump administration's Israeli-Palestinian plan that allows Israel to annex swaths of the West Bank....

Secretary of State Mike Pompeo will travel to Jerusalem next week to meet with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and political rival Benny Gantz, the State Department said....

China challenged Mike Pompeo to present evidence that would back his recent claim that the coronavirus came from a Chinese laboratory, in the first official government reaction to the U.S. secretary of state's statement....

Secretary of State Mike Pompeo's allegation that the coronavirus pandemic can be traced to a Chinese lab sparked an angry response by China's media on Monday; its government didn't comment during a national holiday....

U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said he has seen "enormous evidence" that the novel coronavirus originated in a laboratory in Wuhan, adding fuel to a point of tension between the U.S. and China....

The Trump administration has no immediate plans to reopen the country's borders after imposing a ban on foreign travelers from the European Union and the U.K. last month to slow the spread of the coronavirus, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said....

The Taliban broke off talks with the Afghan government in Kabul on Tuesday, creating a fresh stumbling block for the peace process only weeks after Secretary of State Mike Pompeo's diplomatic rescue mission to Afghanistan....

Secretary of State Mike Pompeo announced the deep cut after he failed to broker a diplomatic deal during a trip to Kabul meant to inject new momentum into the U.S.'s efforts to extricate itself from the war in Afghanistan....

Secretary of State Mike Pompeo arrived in Kabul on an unannounced trip to Afghanistan for a diplomatic rescue mission....

Secretary of State Mike Pompeo singled out China's treatment of religious minorities as one of the world's worst examples of abuse as he presented the State Department's annual report on human rights on Wednesday....