They’re trying to stop the opposition leader’s diplomats from taking over the building.

The mood was celebratory, though at least one protester was detained.

Cicadas, mealworms and crickets will be served at the Dutch Embassy after a discussion after insects as snacks later this month.

Embassies in D.C. get protested for lots of things, but this one may stand out. Animal rights activists will gather this afternoon and march on the South Korean embassy, where they will protest the use of dogs and cats for food.

In its strongest statement over the ongoing internal conflict in Syria, the Obama administration today took the relatively rare step of booting the top Syrian envoy to the U.S.

The Metropolitan Police Department is responding to reports of a suspicious package inside the Saudi Embassy near the Kennedy Center this morning.

Marion Barry’s recent comments on Filipino nurses in D.C. hospitals have provoked a strong rebuke from the Filipino ambassador to the U.S.

The Embassy of Ecuador, located in a historic building just off of Meridian Hill Park, recently relocated to an office in Georgetown while work can be done to repair damage that occurred in during the August 2011 earthquake.

The tragic death of 64-year-old Trudi Rishikof after being hit by a car on Connecticut Avenue last week only seems to get more complex by the day. Well, the details of what happened are pretty clear — she was crossing in crosswalk and was hit by a driver that is thought to have been using a cellphone at the time. It’s everything else that’s complicated.

This week’s revelation that the Saudi ambassador to the U.S. was targeted for assassination was big news — not only because of the links to Iran, but also because had it happened, it would have marked one of the few times in history that a foreign diplomat was killed while serving in Washington.