Towing the line between diplomat and intelligence agent, Burns's trips to the region are shrouded under a cloak of mystery.

While the United States tries to spy on one of the hardest targets, Burns has also tried to reopen a dialogue with Beijing, ...

They have interviewed William J. Burns repeatedly during his decades ... But what changed, Mr. Burns said, is that Hamas’s military commanders were feeling “beleaguered,” and their forces ...

according to the terms of the cease-fire and hostage release agreement with Hamas. As C.I.A. director, William J. Burns was deeply focused on China and Russia when the Middle East conflict plunged ...

CIA Director William J. Burns took a speedy tour of the Middle ... Israel and the United States have both blamed Hamas for failing to agree to a proposal that would free about half of the ...

Israel launched the war after Hamas carried out its unprecedented ... and there was no indication that CIA chief William Burns was in Qatar, either. Both men have joined the talks repeatedly ...

An Egyptian security delegation will head to Qatar's capital on Wednesday "on a mission to bring viewpoints closer between Hamas and Israel ... after his meeting with Burns in Cairo.

Ambassador William J. Burns, president of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, sits down with James M. Lindsay to discuss American diplomacy, international cooperation, and Burns’s ...