Rex Tillerson: “We call on the king of Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain, and Egypt to ease the blockade on Qatar.”

The 2001 AUMF provides statutory authority for ongoing U.S. military operations against al-Qaeda, the Taliban, and associated forces.

We take the relationship with Russia as serious. They are a global nuclear power.

The United States and Russia certainly have unresolved differences on a number of issues. But we have the potential to appropriately coordinate in Syria in order to produce stability and serve our mutual security interests.

Russia has often employed malicious tactics against the U.S. and Europe to drive us apart, and serially harassing and intimidating diplomats are not the behaviors of a responsible nation.