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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

Struan Stevenson, a leading member of the European Parliament, sounded desperate as he appealed to the Obama administration to prevent a "human catastrophe" among Iranian exiles in Iraq.

October 27, 2011

Embassy Row

The United States and Syria this week engaged in a diplomatic showdown that resulted in Washington and Damascus recalling their ambassadors, as tensions increased over Syria's bloody assault on unarmed demonstrators.

October 25, 2011

Embassy Row

The dismissal of the deputy ambassador at the Israeli Embassy in Washington sent shock waves through Israel's foreign service, as diplomats complain of a "sense of fear" and worry that their phones are tapped by their own government.

October 23, 2011

Embassy Row

Frank Duggan, who has been chasing Moammar Gadhafi since a Libyan terrorist killed nearly 200 Americans on a plane over Lockerbie, Scotland, in 1988, rejoiced Thursday when he learned the deposed dictator was dead.

October 20, 2011

Embassy Row

The deputy ambassador at the British Embassy recently boasted about the British burning of the White House during the War of 1812, calling the sacking of Washington a "great British victory."

October 18, 2011

Embassy Row

The U.S. ambassador in Syria is warning that the widespread peaceful protests against President Bashar Assad could erupt into civil war, while the Syrian Embassy in Washington is howling over charges it is intimidating Syrian dissidents in the United States.

October 16, 2011

Embassy Row

The U.S. ambassador to the Philippines blamed corrupt officials for the continuation of the illegal sex trade and praised the Philippines government for fighting what he called the "evils of human trafficking."

September 29, 2011

Embassy Row

The U.S. ambassador to Hungary admired a collection of American music posters from the 1960s and regretted that she was too young for the psychedelic days that bloomed in San Francisco.

September 27, 2011

Embassy Row

A writer for a Chinese Communist Party newspaper claims he got death threats after criticizing U.S. Ambassador Gary Locke, the Chinese-American diplomat who is wildly popular among Chinese bloggers.

September 25, 2011

Embassy Row

A senior Republican senator is determined to force the U.S. ambassador to the Czech Republic to give up his post over charges that the envoy misled Congress two years ago when he served as an adviser to President Obama.

September 22, 2011

Embassy Row

Taiwanese officials are wondering why the United Nations continues to ignore their prosperous, stable democracy while U.N. diplomats promote statehood for the Palestinians - a squabbling, divided entity aligned with a terrorist organization.

September 20, 2011

Embassy Row

The U.S. ambassador to Pakistan over the weekend publicly accused the government in Islamabad of having ties with terrorists who attacked the U.S. Embassy and NATO headquarters in Afghanistan last week.

September 18, 2011

Embassy Row

The chairwoman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee this week struck back at critics of a bill she introduced to make U.S. contributions to the United Nations voluntary.

September 15, 2011

Embassy Row

Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton warned Tuesday of growing religious intolerance in Arab nations that overthrew autocratic governments this year.

September 13, 2011

Embassy Row

Ambassador Robert Ford this week excoriated the Syrian government for its brutal assault on peaceful protests in his strongest words since he became the U.S. envoy in Damascus in January.

September 8, 2011

Embassy Row

Philippines President Benigno Aquino III this week criticized former U.S. Ambassador to the Philippines Kristie Kenney for relying on poor intelligence in her assessment of him as a weak and bashful politician.

September 6, 2011

Embassy Row

After belittling former Philippines President Corazon Aquino, the former U.S. ambassador in Manila described her son, the country's current president, as bashful and timid.

September 4, 2011

Embassy Row

Facing outrage from officials in the Philippines, the former U.S. ambassador in Manila mounted a weak defense: "Don't believe all you read."

September 1, 2011

Embassy Row

Pro-government thugs in Syria attacked U.S. Ambassador Robert Ford in Damascus last week, and Syrian television recorded the assault in a news clip widely circulated over the Internet.

August 30, 2011

Embassy Row

U.S. Ambassador Charles Ray tried to soothe tense diplomatic relations with Zimbabwe by meeting with the chairman of the ruling party and insisting that Washington plays no favorites in the domestic political relations.

August 28, 2011