American diplomatic missions

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American Embassy in Budapest
American Embassy in Budapest
American Embassy in Ottawa
American Embassy in Ottawa
American Embassy in Tokyo
American Embassy in Tokyo
American Embassy in Athens
American Embassy in Athens
American Embassy in Kuala Lumpur
American Embassy in Kuala Lumpur
American Embassy in Oslo
American Embassy in Oslo
American Embassy in Libreville
American Embassy in Libreville
American Embassy in Stockholm
American Embassy in Stockholm
American Embassy in Dublin
American Embassy in Dublin

Benjamin Franklin established America's first mission overseas in Paris in 1779. In the period following the American Revolution, George Washington sent a number of close advisers to the courts of European potentates in order to garner recognition of American independence with mixed results, including Thomas Jefferson, John Adams, Francis Dana and John Jay [1]. Much of the first fifty years of the Department of State concerned negotiating with imperial European powers over the territorial integrity of the borders of the United States as known today. In the latter half of the nineteenth century, the State Department was concerned with expanding commercial ties in Asia, establishing Liberia, foiling diplomatic recognition of the Confederacy and securing its presence in North America. America's global preeminence became evident in the twentieth century, and the State Department was required to invest in a large network of diplomatic missions to manage its bilateral and multilateral relations. [2].

Listed below are American embassies and other diplomatic missions around the world. Excluded are "Virtual Presence Posts", virtual offices in which the US department can manage bilateral ties and organise US citizen services without a physical presence.

Contents

[edit] Europe

[edit] North America

[edit] South America

[edit] Middle East

[edit] Africa

[edit] Asia

[edit] Oceania

[edit] Multilateral Organisations

[edit] See also

[edit] Terrorist attacks on US diplomatic facilities

Date Location Details Deaths
August 19, 1974 Nicosia Riot outside Embassy; Ambassador and assistant shot by sniper 2
August 4, 1975 Kuala Lumpur Japanese Red Army gunmen raid Embassy none
November 21, 1979 Islamabad Islamist riots destroy Embassy (see 1979 U.S. Embassy Burning in Islamabad) 2
December 2, 1979 Tripoli Islamist riots destroy Embassy none
April 18, 1983 Beirut Islamic Jihad car bomb destroys Embassy (see April 1983 U.S. Embassy bombing) 63
December 12, 1983 Kuwait City al-Dawa truck bomb outside Embassy 6
September 20, 1984 Beirut Hezbollah truck bomb outside Embassy 24
November, 1984 Bogotá Car bomb outside Embassy planted by drug cartel 1
February, 1986 Lisbon Popular Forces of 25 April car bomb outside Embassy none
May 14, 1986 Jakarta Japanese Red Army mortar barrage none
June 9, 1987 Rome Japanese Red Army mortar barrage none
September 17, 1989 Bogotá RPG fired on Embassy by unknown assailant none
July 27, 1993 Lima Car bomb outside Embassy planted by Shining Path none
September 13, 1995 Moscow RPG fired on Embassy by unknown assailant none
June 21, 1998 Beirut RPG fired on Embassy by Hezbollah none
August 7, 1998 Nairobi and Dar es Salaam al-Qaeda simulatenously attacks both Embassies with truck bombs (more details) 224
January 22, 2002 Calcutta Harakat ul-Jihad-I-Islami gunmen attack Consulate 5
June 14, 2002 Karachi al-Qaeda truck bomb detonates outside Consulate (more details) 12
October 12, 2002 Denpasar Consular Office bombed by Jemaah Islamiyah as part of the Bali bombings none
February 28, 2003 Islamabad Unknown gunmen attack Embassy 2
June 30, 2004 Tashkent Islamic Jihad Group of Uzbekistan suicide bomber attacks Embassy 2
December 6, 2004 Jeddah al-Qaeda gunmen raid diplomatic compound 9
March 2, 2006 Karachi Car bomb explodes outside Embassy unknown 2
September 12, 2006 Damascus Gunmen raid US Embassy 4
January 12, 2007 Athens RPG Fired at Embassy none

[edit] References

State Department

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