While serving as Colin Powell’s deputy during the Iraq war, he found himself at the center of a scandal when he leaked a ...

Mr. Armitage was a central figure in chapters of American national security from the Vietnam War era to the post-Sept. 11, ...

He knew the reach of American power. And the value of restraint. Mr Richard Armitage, an old-school US diplomat, is being remembered here and in Singapore for shaping Washington’s approach to ...

Richard Lee Armitage, the son of a businessman and a nurse, was born in Wellesley, Massachusetts, on April 26, 1945, and grew up in Atlanta, where he graduated from St. Pius X Catholic High School ...