WASHINGTON — The C.I.A. director, William J. Burns, traveled to Kabul for talks with the Taliban leadership, American officials familiar with his visit said on Tuesday, conducting the ...

CIA Director William J. Burns held a secret meeting Monday in Kabul with the Taliban’s de facto leader, Abdul Ghani Baradar, in the highest-level face-to-face encounter between the Taliban and ...

President Biden sent CIA Director William J. Burns to meet with Taliban top leader Abdul Ghani Baradar in Kabul Monday ahead of the approaching end-of-month deadline for full troop withdrawal from ...

CIA Director William J. Burns met face-to-face with the top Taliban leader in Kabul on Monday, according to two US officials, as the US continues airlifting American citizens and its Afghan allies ...

The U.S.-Taliban channel moved to a higher level this week as CIA Director William J. Burns met secretly on Monday in Kabul with Taliban leader Abdul Ghani Baradar. Burns was delivering a personal ...

To mark the 20th anniversary of the American-led invasion of Iraq, the C.I.A. director, William J. Burns, stood in the lobby of the agency’s headquarters in Langley, Va., and sought to exorcise ...

Former CIA Director William J. Burns is publishing Diplomat Spy: A Memoir of Espionage in Revolutionary Times, Random House announced June 3; The release date of Diplomat Spy has not yet been ...

It is with great sadness that we announce the passing of William J. Burns, Jr., 87, of Batavia. Bill passed away peacefully on Wednesday, Jan. 8, 2025, surrounded by his ...

NEW YORK, April 24, 2025--Evercore (NYSE: EVR) announced today that William J. Burns will join the firm in June as senior advisor for global affairs, based in Washington, D.C.

CIA Director William Burns said he is “very proud” of the agency’s analysis in Afghanistan in 2021 despite being blindsided by the swift collapse of the Afghan government and failing to ...