U.S. Department of State

BELGRADE - EducationUSA, a U.S. Department of State network of advising centers, will organize a one-day fair of higher education for Southeast Europe at Belgrade's Falkensteiner hotel on Friday.

Washington on Tuesday continued to show its heightened irritation over the leftist Greek government's recently passed law to conditionally release disabled convicts, an initiative that could include notorious "November 17" terrorist Savvas Xiros.

BELGRADE - Serbia's Interior Minister Nebojsa Stefanovic has stated that an international conference on the fight against terrorism and extremism will be held in Belgrade on April 29.

The conference will be attended by representatives of the U.S. Department of State and European partners of the Serbian interior ministry, Stefanovic said.

Bulgaria is strategically situated along the Balkan Route for illicit drugs and other contraband trafficked from Southwest Asia into Western Europe, according to a report of the U.S. Department of State.

The fighting in Syria, which started with an uprising against the Bashar al-Assad regime and transformed into a deadly civil war, has entered its fifth year. As of January 2015, it has claimed over 220,000 lives, displaced 7.6 million people inside Syria, and driven another 3.5 million people out of the country.

U.S. Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Energy Diplomacy Robin L. Dunnigan visited Greece this week to speak at the Athens Energy Forum and to meet with officials at the Ministry of Productive Reconstruction, Environment and Energy, as well as public and private energy companies in Greece.

Turkey has deported over 1,100 foreign fighters aiming to join Islamic jihadists in Iraq and Syria, as it sees them as the ?common enemy,? Turkish Defense Minister ?smet Y?lmaz has said during an anti-terrorism ministerial meeting in Washington.

WASHINGTON - The United States congratulated Serbian Prime Minister Aleksandar Vucic, Kosovo Prime Minister Isa Mustafa and EU foreign policy chief Federica Mogherini on the success achieved in the Belgrade-Pristina dialogue, stated the U.S. Department of State .

The United States wants all governments to ensure the monitoring of corporate and financial activity is done in line with international legal standards, said deputy spokesperson of the U.S. Department of State Marie Harf on Feb. 5, upon a question about the seizure of a Turkish bank by a government body. 

The U.S. Department of State has conveyed its concerns about the relationship between Hamas and Turkey to Turkish officials, a day after Ankara said the leader of Hamas is "welcome in Turkey."