Richard Armitage, who as deputy to Secretary of State Colin Powell helped guide foreign policy during President George W. Bush’s tumultuous first term and was a central figure in chapters of ...

China-related work now consumes about 20 percent of the agency’s budget, a threefold increase from the start of his tenure, Burns said. William J. Burns: The United States needs a new foreign policy ...

CIA chief holds secret meeting with Taliban leader in Kabul ANKARA: CIA Director William J. Burns reportedly held a secret meeting with the Taliban’s de facto leader Abdul Ghani Baradar in Kabul on ...

Doha: CIA Director William J. Burns arrived in Qatar on Tuesday for secret meetings with Israel’s spy chief and Qatar’s prime minister aimed at brokering an expansive deal between Israel and ...

CIA Director William J. Burns arrived in Qatar on Tuesday for secret meetings with Israel’s spy chief and Qatar’s prime minister aimed at brokering an expansive deal between Israel and Hamas ...

CIA Director William J. Burns arrived in Qatar on Tuesday for secret meetings with Israel’s spy chief and Qatar’s prime minister aimed at brokering an expansive deal between Israel and Hamas ...

It was Mr. Burns, rather than Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken, whom Mr. Biden dispatched in November 2021 to Moscow, where from a Kremlin phone the C.I.A. director spoke with Mr. Putin (who ...

CIA Director William Burns arrives for a closed-door House Appropriations subcommittee hearing, at the Capitol in Washington, Thursday, May 19, 2022. | J. Scott Applewhite/AP Photo ...

Burns is “very mature, he is very experienced, he is very reserved, he’s very judicious in what he says,” said William Taylor, a former U.S. ambassador to Ukraine who has long known the CIA ...

He recently arrived back in Afghanistan after a 20-year-exile and reportedly met with CIA chief William J. Burns.

CIA Director William Burns’s visit to Kabul last weekend likely targeted not only completion of the evacuation but also future relations between the U.S. and the Taliban.