Muriel Bowser, 53, has been mayor of the District of Columbia since January 2015. (Photo courtesy Office of the Mayor) When Muriel Bowser took office Jan. 2, 2015, as mayor of the District of Columbia ...

From L to R: British Ambassador Christian Turner; Ambassador Constancia Adelina Gaspar, of the African Union; Canadian Ambassador Mark Wiseman; Indonesian Ambassador Dwisuryo Indroyono Soesilo; ...

Philippine Ambassador José Manuel del Gallego Romualdez is interviewed by Washington Diplomat news editor Larry Luxner during the Ambassador Insider Series on Nov. 12. (All photos by Ben Droz) The ...

Antony Anderson is Jamaica's ambassador to the United States. (Photo by Derrick Scott) Maj. Gen. (Ret.) Antony Anderson had been on the job for exactly five months as Jamaica’s ambassador to the ...

Vladyslav, a combat lifesaver in the Ukrainian Army whose call sign is “Savage,” was completely drained after two years of constant bloodshed. “The only thing that kept me going was the hope of ...

One of Europe’s poorest and least-known countries, Moldova recently made world headlines when voters decisively rejected efforts by the Kremlin to install a pro-Russia party in Parliament. Final ...

The Concert, ca. 1633, by Judith Leyster, is one of several works on display at the National Museum of Women in the Arts in Washington, DC. (Photos by NMWA) There’s so much to study here: an ...

Nebraska Gov. Jim Pillen (3rd from left) receives NUSACC President and CEO David Hamod; Mohamed Melainine Ould Eyih, Mauritania's minister of professional development; and Mauritanian Ambassador Cissé ...

Sunita Williams and three other NASA crew members of Expedition 72—known for their impromptu nine-month mission aboard the International Space Station—received a warm welcome Sept. 17 by the Embassy ...

President Donald Trump poses for an Oval Office photo with Paraguayan businessman and lawmaker Gustavo Leite Gusinky, the country's new ambassador in Washington. (Photo courtesy of the White House) ...

Ambassadors Lilit Makunts of Armenia and Khazar Ibrahim of Azerbaijan both tell the Washington Diplomat they look forward to a new era of peace and friendship between their two countries. (Photo by ...

Five newly appointed ambassadors have recently joined Washington’s diplomatic scene, representing Benin, Burkina Faso, Germany, Liberia and Malaysia. The longest vacant position was that of Burkina ...