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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

The new U.S. ambassador to South Korea tried to stay out of the country's bruising politics in his first public speech Tuesday but ended up being dragged into a bitter fight over U.S.-Korea trade.

February 14, 2012

Embassy Row

The Vatican's new ambassador to the United States was at the center of explosive allegations about corruption at the Holy See just before Pope Benedict XVI sent him to Washington.

February 12, 2012

Embassy Row

Rarely does a diplomat speak so bluntly, but with that one word in a Twitter post, the U.S. ambassador to Russia set off a buzz in the blogosphere this week, as he slapped down a critic who accused him of trying to topple the government in the Kremlin.

February 9, 2012

Embassy Row

The chairwoman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee chided the Obama administration Tuesday, saying the U.S. support for Israel must go "beyond rhetoric" as she met with Israel's outspoken foreign minister.

February 7, 2012

Embassy Row

Canada is putting diplomatic pressure on the White House after President Obama delayed approval of a major oil pipeline from Alberta, as Prime Minister Stephen Harper this week heads to energy-hungry China, which wants the fuel.

February 5, 2012

Embassy Row

A leader of the Muslim Brotherhood this week met with the American ambassador and a top State Department official at the U.S. Embassy in Cairo and scoffed at President Obama's commitment to democracy in Egypt.

January 26, 2012

Embassy Row

Armenian-Americans predict that Washington will be the next diplomatic battlefield after the French Parliament approved a bill that would make it a crime to deny that the Turkish massacre of Armenians during World War I was genocide.

January 24, 2012

Embassy Row

The Kuwaiti sheik whose skillful diplomacy as ambassador in Washington coaxed the United States into liberating his country from Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein died over the weekend.

January 22, 2012

Embassy Row

Russian state television this week denounced U.S. Ambassador Michael A. McFaul after the American envoy met with political opposition leaders in Moscow.

January 19, 2012

Embassy Row

President Obama's decision to re-establish full diplomatic relations with the military-backed government of Myanmar after 22 years has divided top congressional Republicans.

January 17, 2012

Embassy Row

The ambassador of Uganda canceled his scheduled appearance at Monday's celebration of Martin Luther King Jr.'s birthday in suburban Washington, after a homosexual newspaper raised the issue of discrimination against gays in his east African nation.

January 15, 2012

Embassy Row

The Mexican ambassador is urging U.S. presidential candidates to tone down their rhetoric on issues affecting U.S.-Mexican relations, the thorniest being illegal immigration from Mexico.

January 12, 2012

Embassy Row

The head of the House Foreign Affairs Committee is urging President Obama to be more aggressive against suspected Iranian conspiracies, as a Venezuelan diplomat implicated in an Iranian cyberplot against the U.S. was due to leave Miami on Tuesday.

January 10, 2012

Embassy Row

The State Department confirmed Sunday that the United States has expelled a top Venezuelan diplomat news reports linked to an Iranian plot to hack into the computer systems of U.S. nuclear power plants.

January 8, 2012

Embassy Row

Aside from a horde of politicians and journalists, New Hampshire is preparing to welcome foreign diplomats who expect to get an insider's view of the Republican presidential primary next week.

January 5, 2012

Embassy Row

U.S. Ambassador Robert Ford, who returned to Syria last month, is already resuming the types of verbal assaults against President Bashar Assad and his violent regime that brought death threats and forced a recall to Washington.

January 3, 2012

Embassy Row

The new ambassador from Argentina, who arrived in Washington last week, has been using diplomacy to refight the Falklands War, a conflict over a group of islands off the coast of the South American nation that his country lost to Britain 30 year ago.

January 1, 2012

Embassy Row

Washington-based election monitors denounced Egypt's military government for storming their offices in Cairo on Thursday, five days before the final vote for a new parliament.

December 29, 2011

Embassy Row

Thousands of demonstrators in Yemen on Tuesday demanded the expulsion of U.S. Ambassador Gerald Feierstein, accusing him of encouraging a violent crackdown on anti-government protesters.

December 27, 2011

Embassy Row

The chairwoman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee is leading a congressional campaign to nominate prominent Cuban dissidents for the Nobel Peace Prize.

December 15, 2011