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Since becoming secretary of state, Hillary Rodham Clinton has gone to great lengths to avoid any appearance of undue influence from her husband. Bill Clinton rarely visits the State Department; he never joins his wife's far-flung official trips. With his headquarters in New York and hers in...
Israel on Wednesday proposed a 10-month halt to new construction in West Bank settlements as a step toward restarting Mideast peace negotiations. Washington welcomed Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's offer, but the Palestinians swiftly rejected it because it did not include a building freeze in Jewish neighborhoods in east Jerusalem, the mainly Arab sector of the city they want as the capital ...
President's speech at West Point next week will outline a modest endgame for Afghanistan. Some won't back a costly increase to war effort.
The Clintons aim to keep their professional orbits separate, avoid potential conflicts of interest.
US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said Wednesday that a temporary freeze on new Israeli settlement building in the West Bank would aid progress toward peace with the Palestinians.
The Obama administration hailed the Israeli government's announcement Wednesday that it intends to temporarily halt new residential construction in Palestinian areas of the West Bank, even though the plan falls far short of the administration's original demand for a full freeze and Palestinian...
President Obama will reveal his new Afghanistan war strategy in a speech Tuesday evening to cadets at West Point, but his most skeptical audience is likely to be the powerful Democrats on Capitol Hill who oppose a troop buildup.
President Barack Obama plans to announce a redrawn battle plan for Afghanistan, including what the military says could be a roughly 50 percent increase in U.S. forces, in a national address Tuesday night from the U.S. Military Academy.
Secretaries Hillary Rodham Clinton and Kathleen Sebelius, Ambassador Eric Goosby, and Valerie Jarrett To Discuss Obama Administration Efforts on HIV/AIDS Washington, DC November 25, 2009 Secretary Clinton and Senior Administration Officials will deliver remarks to highlight the efforts of the Obama Administration on HIV/AIDS issues Monday, November 30 at 2:30 p.m. The event, which occurs on the ...
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu ordered a 10-month freeze on some building in West Bank settlements on Wednesday, pleasing the United States but Palestinians said it was not enough to restart peace talks.
President Obama will announce the U.S. troop strategy for Afghanistan in a speech at 8 p.m. ET Tuesday at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, New York, White House spokesman Robert Gibbs said Wednesday.
A US official working on closing the Guantanamo Bay prison has resigned, a Pentagon spokesman said Wednesday, the second senior US official tasked with closing the site who has resigned in weeks.
Israeli government ministers Wednesday overwhelmingly approved a temporary freeze on settlement construction in the West Bank in an effort to restart peace talks with the Palestinians.
The United States will not be in Afghanistan eight years from now, the White House said on Wednesday, as President Barack Obama prepared to explain to Americans next week why he is expanding the war effort.
President Obama can often be more interested in wooing opponents than tending to those who put themselves on the line for him.
President Barack Obama will announce his plan to bolster the war in Afghanistan in a speech Tuesday night from the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, his spokesman said, a surge that military officials say could top 30,000 troops.
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