The US State Department is revamping its counter-violent-extremist communications efforts through a new Global Engagement Center, a State Department press release said.

China has summoned a senior US envoy in protest after Washington announced it would sell two warships to Taiwan.

Gun-toting jihadists took more than 100 people hostage for around nine hours at a top hotel in Mali's capital Bamako on Friday, in an attack claimed by an al-Qaeda affiliate that left at least 27 people dead.

The fourth security dialogue between Bangladesh and the United States is being held in Washington.

Hillary Clinton says she and her family paid a State Department staffer with personal funds to maintain a private email server that she used for both personal and government matters while secretary of state.

Aides to Hillary Rodham Clinton at the State Department complain about the limitations of using email to discuss sensitive diplomatic information.

Bangladesh does not make “significant progress” toward meeting requirements of fiscal transparency for 2015, report says.

Another 700 Rohingya and Bangladeshi migrants are rescued off Indonesia on Friday, police say, as Myanmar undermined calls for a coordinated response to the human-trafficking crisis by threatening to boycott a planned Southeast Asian summit.