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A massive protest took over University Avenue in front of the U.S Consulate with Iranian-Canadians calling on the American and Canadian governments to help their loved ones back home. As Caryn Lieberman reports, many have been unable to speak to family for days.

There are new concerns that tensions may have reached a boiling point in the Middle East, amid reports that Israel could be preparing to carry out a strike on Iran. It comes as Washington prepares to sit down once more with Tehran to hammer out a nuclear deal. Reggie Cecchini explains.

Asked about the decision to pull some personnel out of the U.S. embassy in Iraq amid rising Middle East tensions, U.S. President Donald Trump said the decision was being made because the region “could be a very dangerous place.” He added that the U.S. would “not allow” Iran to have a nuclear weapon.

The U.S. shut its embassy in Kyiv on Wednesday morning due to what it called the threat of a “potential significant air attack,” a day after Ukraine used American missiles to hit a target inside Russia.

The Mexican government has paused its relationship with the U.S. and Canadian embassies in the country, President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador said on Tuesday, after their ambassadors criticized a proposed judicial reform that he backs. “There is a pause,” Lopez Obrador said in a press conference, clarifying that the freeze was with the embassies and...

The Pentagon is racing to bring thousands of U.S. embassy workers home from Afghanistan before the Taliban adds Kabul to its growing list of seized cities. Jennifer Johnson reports on the rescue efforts, and the worldwide response to Afghanistan’s crisis.

U.S. President Donald Trump on Thursday said that he ordered the killing of Iran’s top general because Iranians “were looking to blow up our embassy.”

U.S embassy guards used stun grenades and tear gas to combat Iraqi protesters, after they stormed the U.S embassy in Baghdad on December 31.

The U.S. ambassador to Iraq and other staff were evacuated from their embassy in Baghdad for their safety on Tuesday, Iraqi officials said, as thousands of protesters and militia fighters outside the gate denounced U.S. air strikes in Iraq.

Egyptian Prime Minister Mostafa Madbouly said on Friday that his government is in touch with the Vietnamese embassy and that they are trying to “contain the effects” of a deadly explosion that killed several people on board a tourist bus near the Giza pyramids.

Palestinians in Gaza City protested U.S. President Donald Trump’s possible plans to move the U.S. embassy to Jerusalem Sunday.

At least four supporters of Nicolas Maduro were seen inside the Venezuelan embassy in Washington, D.C., as part of a protest despite police warning they were trespassing.

Three buses believed to be carrying expelled American diplomats departed from the U.S. Embassy in Moscow on Thursday.

Vice-President Mike Pence visited with Israeli Prie Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Monday in Jerusalem, where he told lawmakers that the United States will open its embassy in Jerusalem next year, ahead of schedule.

Hundreds of protesters marched down two main Buenos Aires avenues to the U.S. embassy on Tuesday in a show of support for embattled Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro and to oppose U.S. involvement in that country.

Hundreds of Bolivians gathered in front of the U.S. embassy in La Paz on Thursday to protest against the United States’ position towards Venezuela and in a show of support for that country’s President, Nicolas Maduro.

Members of the ‘Bring Back Our Girls Campaign’ held a prayer vigil on Wednesday at the Nigerian Embassy in Washington DC for the more than 270 schoolgirls held captive by the extremist Islamist group Boko Haram.

On Sunday’s episode of “Face the Nation,” CBS’ David Martin spoke with host Margaret Brennan about the U.S. military successfully evacuating American government employees from the U.S. embassy in Khartoum, Sudan, which the White House announced overnight. Sen. Chris Coons also appeared on the show, where he spoke about the U.S. pulling out of Sudan...

U.S. officials announced that they would be removing non-essential embassy staff in Kyiv, Ukraine out of an “abundance of caution” despite having no new information suggesting that things are about to change. Meanwhile, NATO said on Monday it was putting forces on standby and reinforcing eastern Europe with more ships and fighter jets, in what...

Lebanese police used teargas and a water cannon to repel scores of protesters demonstrating on Wednesday near the U.S. embassy in Beirut against what they said was Israel’s attack on a hospital in Gaza that killed hundreds of Palestinians.