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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

Russia is unlikely to fulfill contract obligations for the construction of more than a dozen nuclear power plants in six countries, including China and Iran, according to the U.S. ambassador in Moscow.

August 25, 2011

Embassy Row

An intense campaign by Armenian-Americans forced the U.S. ambassador to Turkey to back off claims that most churches in Turkey are still functioning more than 100 years after Turkish Muslims began killing Armenian Christians and destroying their places of worship.

August 23, 2011

Embassy Row

President Obama is resisting new appeals for the recall of the U.S. ambassador to Syria, after urging dictator Bashar Assad to resign and stop "imprisoning, torturing and slaughtering his own people."

August 21, 2011

Embassy Row

The ambassador who long represented Moammar Gadhafi and strongly defended the Libyan dictator reopened the Libyan Embassy this week as the envoy of the rebel provisional government, proclaiming a new democratic Libya.

August 18, 2011

Embassy Row

U.S. supporters of unarmed Iranian dissidents in Iraq are mounting a campaign to persuade the State Department to remove the exiles from its terrorist list and protect them from retaliation by pro-Iranian officials in Baghdad.

August 16, 2011

Embassy Row

The new American ambassador to China tried to calm Beijing's anxiety over its massive U.S. debt holdings, insisting on Sunday the investment is safe despite the U.S. economic crisis.

August 14, 2011

Embassy Row

The chairwoman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee is calling on President Obama to protest Syria's "bloodthirsty" regime by refusing to send U.S. Ambassador Robert Ford back to Damascus.

August 4, 2011

Embassy Row

The U.S. ambassador to Zimbabwe vowed to continue denouncing human rights violations in the southern African nation but offered some soothing words to autocratic President Robert Mugabe and his thuggish political party.

August 2, 2011

Embassy Row

U.S.-Pakistani relations, already strained over the U.S. raid that killed Osama bin Laden, turned uglier last week when airport officials in the capital Islamabad tried to impose travel checks on U.S. Ambassador Cameron Munter.

July 31, 2011

Embassy Row

Armenian-Americans are cheering Sen. Robert Menendez for blocking the nomination of career diplomat John Heffern to serve as ambassador to Armenia.

July 28, 2011

Embassy Row

A leading member of the European Parliament on Tuesday appealed to Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton to disavow remarks by a U.S. diplomat dealing with imperiled Iranian dissidents in Iraq.

July 26, 2011

Embassy Row

The president of the Hungarian American Coalition is accusing the leading Democrat on a key congressional human rights panel of taking political "cheap shots" against the conservative government in Budapest.

July 24, 2011

Embassy Row

The Syrian foreign minister this week warned the U.S. and French ambassadors that they will face severe travel restrictions if they leave Damascus again without government permission.

July 21, 2011

Embassy Row

Judges who are soft on crime are threatening Bulgaria's crackdown on underworld bosses, according to a classified cable from U.S. Ambassador James Warlick in Sofia.

July 19, 2011

Embassy Row

"Good morning, tweethearts!" That is the diplomatically disarming greeting U.S. Ambassador Kristie Kenney in Bangkok sends to 20,000 people each day who follow her on Twitter.

July 17, 2011

Embassy Row

The leader of an anti-immigrant, ultranationalist party in Bulgaria is denouncing U.S. Ambassador James Warlick for meeting with a newly formed group of independent lawmakers, including some who bolted his political movement.

July 14, 2011

Embassy Row

Armenian-Americans are suspicious of President Obama's nominee to serve as ambassador to Armenia because he once worked for a man described as "consistently one of the most pro-Turkish and anti-Armenian representatives to serve in Congress."

July 12, 2011

Embassy Row

The Syrian Foreign Ministry on Sunday summoned U.S. Ambassador Robert Ford to express its outrage over a trip he took to a restive city to show Washington's support for anti-government demonstrators.

July 10, 2011

Embassy Row

Former U.S. diplomats and human rights activists are urging President Obama to impose tougher sanctions against the autocratic president of Belarus for ordering violent attacks on peaceful anti-government demonstrators.

July 7, 2011

Embassy Row

Islamic leaders are outraged at the "cultural terrorism" they say the U.S. Embassy in Pakistan has promoted with a gay pride celebration.

July 5, 2011