Towing the line between diplomat and intelligence agent, Burns's trips to the region are shrouded under a cloak of mystery.

While the United States tries to spy on one of the hardest targets, Burns has also tried to reopen a dialogue with Beijing, ...

CIA Director William J. Burns took a speedy tour of the Middle ... Israel and the United States have both blamed Hamas for failing to agree to a proposal that would free about half of the ...

according to the terms of the cease-fire and hostage release agreement with Hamas. As C.I.A. director, William J. Burns was deeply focused on China and Russia when the Middle East conflict plunged ...

They have interviewed William J. Burns repeatedly during his decades ... But what changed, Mr. Burns said, is that Hamas’s military commanders were feeling “beleaguered,” and their forces ...

An Egyptian security delegation will head to Qatar's capital on Wednesday "on a mission to bring viewpoints closer between Hamas and Israel ... after his meeting with Burns in Cairo.

CIA Director William J. Burns, a big gun who was brought in for ... Blinken has made a dozen visits to the Middle East since the Hamas attacks that launched the war. White House national security ...

In a wide-ranging exit interview, NPR's Mary Louise Kelly asks Central Intelligence Agency director William Burns about the resurgence of ISIS,... In a wide-ranging exit interview, NPR's Mary ...

Ambassador William J. Burns, president of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, sits down with James M. Lindsay to discuss American diplomacy, international cooperation, and Burns’s ...