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In November 2015, Malley was named as President Obama's new special ISIS advisor. [5] After leaving the Obama administration, Malley was President and CEO of the International Crisis Group, a Brussels [6] non-profit committed to preventing wars. [7] In January 2021, President Joe Biden named Malley as special U.S. envoy for Iran. [8]
President Obama changed the timeline of withdrawing troops from Iraq within 16 months of his taking office as outlined in the election to 19 months after taking office. Obama appointed a Special Envoy for Middle East peace (George Mitchell) and a Special Envoy to Afghanistan and Pakistan (Richard C. Holbrooke). In 2013, Obama urged the leaders ...
University of Connecticut (BA) Columbia University (JD) Brett H. McGurk (born April 20, 1973) is an American diplomat, attorney, and academic who served in senior national security positions under presidents George W. Bush, Barack Obama, and Donald Trump. He currently serves as deputy assistant to President Joe Biden and National Security ...
The situation in Darfur dominated the United States–Sudan relationship until early in the administration of President Barack H. Obama. [7] Obama named Scott Gration as the new special envoy for Sudan. [7] He changed the tone of the dialogue with the government in Khartoum and began contact with Darfur's highly fragmented rebel movements. [7]
The United States ambassador to Afghanistan is the official diplomatic representative of the United States to Afghanistan. In the wake of the 2021 fall of Kabul to the Taliban, the U.S. embassy in Kabul transferred operations to Doha, Qatar. Since December 31, 2021, the U.S. interests section at the Embassy of Qatar in Kabul has served as the ...
President Obama sent Special Envoy for Middle East peace George Mitchell on an 8-day tour of the Middle East starting on January 26, 2009, in which Mitchell met with the Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert and the Israeli army chief of staff Lt. General Gabi Ashkenaz to discuss the peace process along with ...
Zalmay Mamozy Khalilzad (Pashto: زلمی خلیل زاد, Dari: زلمی خلیلزاد; born March 22, 1951) is an American diplomat and foreign policy expert. Khalilzad was U.S. special representative for Afghanistan reconciliation from September 2018 to October 2021. [2] Khailzad was appointed by President George W. Bush to serve as ...
Official website. Daniel Benjamin " Dan " Shapiro[1] (born August 1, 1969) is an American diplomat who served as United States Ambassador to Israel from 2011 to 2017. He was nominated by President Barack Obama on March 29, 2011, and confirmed by the Senate on May 29. [2][3] He was sworn in as ambassador by Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on ...