The State Department said Friday it has warned nearly 400 passport applicants of a security breach in its records system that may have left them open to identity theft. The department has so far notified 383 people — most of them in the Washington, D.C. area — that their passport applications containing ...

The United States on Friday condemned the serial bombings that claimed scores of lives in northeast India, saying there was no justification for using violence against innocent people. "The United States condemns these attacks," State Department spokesman Sean McCormack told reporters. "There is absolutely no justification for the use of violence against ... innocent people." A little-known Islamic group, the "Islamic ...

The United States said Wednesday it is sending its top envoy on Africa to the Democratic Republic of Congo as it voiced "deep concern" over fighting in the country's east. Jendayi Frazer, the assistant secretary of state for African affairs, "is going to be in Kinshasa," the capital, on Thursday to talk with "the leadership in the DRC," State ...

The United States offered Wednesday to send humanitarian relief to southwest Pakistan after at least 170 people were killed and many others displaced in a powerful earthquake. "We are deeply saddened to learn about the earthquake... Our sympathies go out to the victims of this tragedy as well as to those who have been displaced by it," State Department spokesman ...