Ahead of the 9/11 Museum’s dedication ceremony Thursday, an anti-Islamist Muslim advocate said a bid by Islamic groups to have a video display edited to remove words like “Islamist extremism”…
Chief Palestinian negotiator Saeb Erekat said during the Munich Security Conference last January that his family hailed back to the Canaanites, “5,500 years before Joshua” destroyed Jericho.
Former U.S. House Speaker Newt Gingrich caused a stir when during his 2012 presidential primary campaign when referred in an interview to "an invented Palestinian people."
Russia and the U.S. differed Tuesday over Syrian President Bashar Assad’s plans for an election next month, with the White House saying they “represent a sham democratically.” Meanwhile the U.N…
The world has “500 days to avoid climate chaos,” French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius said alongside Secretary of State John Kerry at the State Department on Tuesday.
A new Boko Haram propaganda video, showing some of the more than 200 schoolgirls its abducted last month wearing Islamic garb and chanting the Islamic declaration of faith, also features an al-…
Former Defense Secretary Robert Gates delivered a bleak assessment Sunday of the outlook for a positive outcome in Syria, saying President Bashar Assad is winning and calling the U.S. handling…
U.S. Mideast peace negotiator Martin Indyk said Thursday announcements of Israeli settlement expansion made during the U.S.-led Mideast peace effort that ended inconclusively last month were…
For the second time in a fortnight, the Obama administration on Thursday criticized a decision by a United Nations body to fill a post with a candidate it deems unsuitable – after not objecting…
Secretary of State John Kerry on Wednesday underlined the issue of poverty as a recruitment tool for extremist groups like Boko Haram, although analysts and Nigerian officials have for months…
Secretary of State John Kerry indicated Tuesday that he would cooperate with a new congressional oversight committee hearing on Benghazi, but indirectly criticized its chairman for issuing a…
“Sometimes I think the only strategy the administration has is getting people who talk about Ukraine to look in the mirror to make sure they practice sounding tough,” Sen. Bob Corker said during…
Asked for a reaction to Russian President Vladimir Putin’s plan to visit Crimea this week, State Department spokeswoman Jen Psaki said Tuesday, “I hope he enjoys his visit to Ukraine.”
Before the administration last November designated Nigeria’s Boko Haram as a foreign terrrorist organization, State Department officials at times argued that the group was driven more by local…
Fielding questions about what help the U.S. can offer Nigeria in its effort to locate and rescue hundreds of schoolgirls held by Boko Haram, White House press secretary Jay Carney on Monday…
“It’s highly unusual for a subpoena to be issued before there’s even an official invitation for testimony,” a State Department spokeswoman said. “I think everyone can make their own judgments…
President Obama’s decision to hold off on military action against the Assad regime after signaling that it was on the cards in response to last summer’s chemical weapons attack was an “…
Almost six hours after Russian President Vladimir Putin was reported Thursday calling on Ukraine to withdraw its armed forces from southeastern Ukraine, White House press secretary Jay Carney…
The U.S. is discussing with Nigeria ways to support its efforts to find more than 200 schoolgirls abducted by Boko Haram18 days ago. The terrorist group’s leader in video in March made reference…
A spokesman for U.N. secretary-general Ban Ki-moon says the U.N. sees no reason not to take Palestinian Authority chairman Mahmoud Abbas “at his word” when he says the unity deal with Hamas will…
A senior administration official on Tuesday reaffirmed that U.S. funding to the Palestinian Authority would be cut if Hamas was brought into the government without abandoning its long-held…
A senior administration official on Tuesday reaffirmed that U.S. funding to the Palestinian Authority would be cut if Hamas was brought into the government without abandoning its long-held…
A senior administration official on Tuesday played down the significance of the Palestinian Authority’s payments to thousands of Palestinians jailed in Israel for terrorist offenses, saying it…