External Affairs Ministry Spokesperson Raveesh Kumar said fresh dates for her visit will be decided in consultation with the Syrian government.  

The two sides signed Communications Compatibility and Security Agreement (COMCASA) that will enable Indian armed forces to get critical and encrypted defence technologies from US.

Swaraj and Defence Minister Nirmala Sitharaman hold '2+2' talks with United States Secretary of Defence James N. Mattis and the United States Secretary of State Mike Pompeo.

"There has been no change to the processing of H-1B visas", said a top US official.

Activities by China in the Indian Ocean have increased as the nation is building ports and other infrastructure in Sri Lanka, Bangladesh and Pakistan.

In Vietnam, Swaraj will co-chair the 16th meeting of the Joint Commission, along with the country’s Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Pham Binh Minh.

According to a statement issued by the External Affairs Ministry, the two ministers took stock of the progress made in key areas of interest such as trade and investment, education, information technology and tourism.

External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj, replied to a tweet saying she will consult a volcano in Indonesia. The eruptions from Mount Agung led to the closure of three airports including the one in Bali affecting 446 flights.

Two Indian businessmen who were abducted in Malaysia earlier in August have been rescued, External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj

Swaraj, who is on her first visit to Uzbekistan, was seen bonding with the Uzbek woman over this famous song sung by Mukesh and Lata Mangeshkar for the 1955 movie.

Swaraj will be in Kazakhstan on August and 2-3, in the Kyrgyzstan on August 30-4 and Uzbekistan from August 4-5, a statement said.

The Foreign Minister further told the House that the main objective of the informal summit between Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Chinese President Xi Jinping at Wuhan was to ensure mutual comfort, mutual understanding and mutual trust between the

At a seminar on "NRI marriages and trafficking of women and children", she said that a new bill is likely to be taken up in the next session of Parliament.

Swaraj, who arrived here Saturday on a two-day visit, also co-chaired the second joint commission meeting with her counterpart Shaikh Khalid bin Ahmed Al Khalifa.

Govt sources told India TV that since proper rules were followed in the issuance of passport to Tanvi Seth by RPO Lucknow, there was no question of revoking her passport.

Sushma Swaraj was targeted by the Twitterati after an officer was transferred for questioning the discrepancies in documents relating to the name of Tanvi Seth, wife of Mohammad Anas Siddiqui, who had applied for passport.

"In my opinion, it is absolutely wrong," Singh told reporters here when asked to comment on the issue.

The minister's husband Swara jKaushal, in an emotional response to a troll, today said the Twitter user's harsh words had caused "unbearable pain" to his family.  

Earlier on June 25, Sushma Swaraj was trolled on Twitter after a regional passport officer in Uttar Pradesh’s capital Lucknow was transferred for allegedly harassing an inter-faith couple.

Yesterday, Pompeo spoke over the phone with Swaraj to express his "regret and deep disappointment" at the US having to postpone the dialogue for "unavoidable reasons".