Less than a year after Sen. Lindsey Graham was advocating for a use-of-force authorization against Iran, the South Carolina Republican on Sunday suggested the U.S. sit down and talk to the…
Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on Thursday defended the Obama administration’s handling of the Dec. 2011 withdrawal of troops from Iraq, pointing out that the timetable was first…
Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on Thursday defended the Obama administration’s handling of the Dec. 2011 withdrawal of troops from Iraq, pointing out that the timetable was first…
National Security Advisor Susan Rice claimed Wednesday that the Obama administration’s participation in the U.N. Human Rights Council has moved its focus away from “demonizing” Israel.
Defending the administration’s controversial swap of five high-level Taliban detainees for Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl, Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel told a House panel Wednesday the freed men had not…
Rep. Jackie Speier (D., Calif.) on Tuesday not only challenged the use of the term terrorists to describe the Taliban but summarized its years of brutal, misogynistic rule in Afghanistan after…
A White House official defended President Obama over the Syria “red line” episode on Monday, after an Arab journalist during a panel discussion in Qatar said he would give Obama’s handling of…
The most senior administration official to visit Qatar since the Gulf state brokered the controversial Taliban prisoner exchange paid homage to its government Monday for helping to obtain Sgt.…
The desire of some elements in the Middle East to “eliminate Islamists entirely from the political scene” was complicating the fight against violent extremists, a senior State Department…
Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) has a suggestion for President Obama: Negotiate another prisoner exchange, but this time trade five senior Democrats for a U.S. Marine being held in Mexico.
Australia’s Attorney-General clashed with a left-wing senator over her use of the word “occupied” to describe the territories disputed between Israel and the Arabs, saying the term was used by “…
“Children” should not be in charge of foreign policy, former U.S. Ambassador to the U.N. John Bolton said Thursday, responding to a State Department spokeswoman’s comments earlier this week…
The Obama administration’s exchange of five senior Taliban prisoners for a captured U.S. soldier has endangered “countless American men and women in uniform across the globe,” Sen. Marco…
Polish President Bronislaw Komorowski on Tuesday welcomed plans for increased U.S. troop rotations in eastern Europe, while hinting that what countries on NATO’s eastern flank would really like…
Amid reports that Qatar will allow five senior Taliban terrorists freed from Guantanamo Bay in the controversial Bergdahl exchange to move around freely, a State Department spokeswoman on…
Assistant Secretary for the Near East Anne Patterson told a House Foreign Affairs subcommitttee on April 29 that “no U.S. governmental money will go into any [Palestinian] government that…
The State Department on Thursday condemned the stoning of death of a Pakistani woman and other violence against women “in the name of tradition and honor,” but made no reference to religion as a…
Secretary of State John Kerry got testy with an interviewer Wednesday while discussing the relative merits of the agreement struck last fall to remove the Syrian regime’s chemical weapons, and…
Syndicated columnist Charles Krauthammer on Tuesday called President Obama’s Afghanistan troop drawdown announcement “kind of an act of personal narcissism.” Appearing on Fox News, he asked, “Is…
Rep. Frank Wolf (R-Va.) in a House floor speech Tuesday urged President Obama to grant asylum to Meriam Ibrahim, the pregnant Sudanese Christian mother on death row for apostasy.
Rep. Frank Wolf (R-Va.) in a House floor speech Tuesday urged President Obama to grant asylum to Meriam Ibrahim, the pregnant Sudanese Christian mother on death row for apostasy.
"If we do nothing" about climate change, Secretary of State John Kerry told Boston College graduates Monday, "and it turns out that the critics and the naysayers and the members of the flat…
French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius, gearing up to host a major U.N. climate conference at the end of next year, wants to start referring to “climate disruption” or “climate chaos” rather…
Amid serious tensions in the South China Sea, China’s top military officer brought to Washington Thursday a message to neighboring countries – and to the U.S. – that his country could not afford…
Secretary of State John Kerry said Thursday he has seen “raw data” indicating several chlorine gas attacks by the Assad regime in recent months. But asked about consequences if the allegation…