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James Morrison joined the The Washington Times in 1983 as a local reporter covering Alexandria, Va. A year later, he was assigned to open a Times bureau in Canada. From 1987 to 1989, Mr. Morrison was The Washington Times reporter in London, covering Britain, Western Europe and NATO issues. After returning to Washington, he served as an assistant foreign editor until his transfer to the Metro desk as the Virginia editor. Mr. Morrison returned to the Foreign Desk in 1993 to launch the Embassy Row column, a diplomatic news column primarily focusing on foreign ambassadors in the United States and U.S. ambassadors abroad. The column is the only one of its kind in U.S. journalism.
Mr. Morrison was born on Nov. 27, 1950, in Charleston, W.Va. His father worked as a printer for the Charleston Gazette and later relocated to Washington to work as a photo engraver at The Washington Post until his retirement. Before joining The Washington Times, James Morrison was a reporter for the Springfield, Va., Times, the Northern Virginia Sun and the Alexandria Gazette. He attended American University.

Articles by James Morrison

Embassy Row

Mari Carmen Aponte will be cleaning out her desk and preparing to return to the United States by the end of the month because Senate Republicans - suspicious of her past ties to a suspected Cuban spy and angered by her support for gay issues - stopped her from continuing to serve as the U.S. ambassador to El Salvador.

December 13, 2011

Embassy Row

More than 60 members of Congress and a human rights commission named for the only Holocaust survivor to serve in the House are urging President Obama to use his Monday meeting with the prime minister of Iraq to demand he protect Iranian dissidents in Camp Ashraf.

December 11, 2011

Embassy Row

Turkish Ambassador Namik Tan said Thursday that his country is pressing the United States for more aid in its fight against separatist Kurdish rebels, who operate along Turkey's mountainous border with northern Iraq.

December 8, 2011

Embassy Row

The Obama administration is defending the U.S. ambassador to Belgium and ignoring calls from many Jewish-American leaders to denounce the envoy for remarks they see as blaming Israel for anti-Semitism among European Muslims.

December 6, 2011

Embassy Row

The U.S. ambassador to Belgium, a Jewish lawyer and son of a Holocaust survivor, created a firestorm of controversy over remarks widely seen as blaming Israel for anti-Semitism among Muslims in Europe.

December 4, 2011

Embassy Row

Two Republican senators are pressing Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton to guarantee the safety of thousands of Iranian dissidents in Iraq, where the government is planning to evict them from a former military camp by the end of the year and possibly deport them to Iran, where they would be killed as terrorists.

December 1, 2011

Embassy Row

The U.S. ambassador to El Salvador stirred up ghosts from her past when she wrote a newspaper article praising the president of the Central American nation for supporting the homosexual agenda.

November 29, 2011

Embassy Row

Pakistan is sending an outspoken politician who supports religious freedom and women's rights as its new ambassador to the United States, replacing an envoy who resigned in a diplomatic scandal that further ripped the already tattered relations between Washington and Islamabad.

November 27, 2011

Embassy Row

Pakistan's ambassador to the United States resigned Tuesday in a widening scandal over a secret letter to a top U.S. military official, fears of a military coup in Pakistan and accusations between the diplomat and a businessman who claims they plotted to deliver the message to the Pentagon.

November 22, 2011

Embassy Row

The U.N. General Assembly overwhelmingly condemned the reported Iranian plot to kill the Saudi ambassador to the United States and called on Iran to cooperate with an investigation that already has linked the Islamist regime to the assassination attempt.

November 20, 2011

Embassy Row

Pakistani Ambassador Husain Haqqani, one of the most respected foreign envoys in Washington, has offered to resign over a controversy that involves a shadowy appeal to a top U.S. military official for help in removing the powerful chiefs of Pakistan's army and spy service.

November 17, 2011

Embassy Row

The arrest of a Taiwan official in Kansas City, Mo., is raising the contentious issue of legal immunity for representatives of the island nation that has remained in a sort of diplomatic twilight zone for three decades.

November 15, 2011

Embassy Row

Richard M. Nixon would shock the sensibilities of today's politically correct world of diplomacy with his blunt view of career diplomats as "eunuchs," his salty assessment of a well-endowed envoy, and his defense of political donors as ambassadors.

November 13, 2011

Embassy Row

Venezuela assigned its top investigators to search for Washington Nationals catcher Wilson Ramos, who was kidnapped Wednesday from his parents' home in the South American nation, the Venezuelan Embassy in Washington said Thursday.

November 10, 2011

Embassy Row

Israeli Ambassador Michael Oren has a challenging job trying to promote President Obama as a friend of Israel, despite increasing tension in the relations between Jerusalem and Washington.

November 8, 2011

Embassy Row

The United States is withholding crucial military aid to the Philippines to protest its failure to hold security authorities responsible for "extrajudicial killings," according to the U.S. ambassador in Manila.

November 6, 2011

Embassy Row

Iran is flailing about over U.S. charges of an Iranian plot to kill the Saudi ambassador in Washington, as both the State Department and the Saudi crown prince dismiss Tehran's demands for an apology.

November 3, 2011

Iranian exiles in Iraq fear attack from Iraqi soldiers

Unarmed Iranian exiles in an Iraqi refugee compound fear another "bloodbath" by Iraqi soldiers after military vehicles rolled into the area late Monday, an Iranian source inside the compound told The Washington Times on Tuesday.

November 1, 2011

Embassy Row

A spokesman for Hungarian Prime Minister Victor Orban called Washington news reports of tension between him and the United States "claptrap," after the Hungarian leader met with the U.S. ambassador last week.

November 1, 2011

Embassy Row

Pakistan Ambassador Husain Haqqani is traveling the United States, feverishly defending his country against charges from many in Washington who accuse Pakistan of supporting terrorists who target U.S. soldiers in Afghanistan.

October 30, 2011