The U.S. House of Representatives voted unanimously Wednesday to impose tough new sanctions on banks that knowingly do business with the Lebanon-based...
The U.N. nuclear agency closed the books Tuesday on its decade-long probe of allegations that Iran worked on atomic arms, and Tehran proclaimed that within...
Americans are souring on President Barack Obama’s approach to fighting ISIS, according to an Associated Press-GfK poll that also found deep pessimism about...
Two top U.S. diplomats Wednesday defended President Barack Obama's policy to defeat ISIS in Syria in the wake of Russian intervention that both said has...
Syrian government offensives backed by Russian air strikes have displaced at least 120,000 people in the war-wracked country, a senior U.S. official said...
Amid fears of an atomic arms race in the Middle East, a senior United Arab Emirates official has told a top U.S. lawmaker that it too might seek the right to...
A top Republican from the US Congress blasts the Iran nuclear deal as 'deeply flawed' and says the agreement would make the world 'less safe'
New York Sen. Chuck Schumer, the No. 3 Senate Democrat and next-in-line party leader, said he is breaking with President Barack Obama and will oppose the Iran...
U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry says he "profoundly disagrees" with the reasoning behind decisions by two prominent Democratic lawmakers to vote against...
U.S. backers of the Iran nuclear deal are increasingly confident of enough Democratic support to ensure it survives review by Congress, despite fierce...
The Obama administration's vigorous effort to sell the Iran nuclear deal to Congress continues - this time in the House where three Cabinet secretaries will...
US Secretary of State John Kerry heads to Congress next week for the first of several hearings addressing the historic nuclear deal with Iran, amid lawmakers'...
Western powers are offering Tehran high-tech reactors under a proposed nuclear agreement, a confidential document says, but a defiant speech by Iran’s supreme...
After extremists’ latest advances in Syria and Iraq, the U.S. is falling back on an old and discredited metric – estimated enemy body counts – to show it...
Qatar has agreed to temporarily extend travel bans on five senior Taliban leaders released last year from the prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, in exchange for...
U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry told skeptical Republicans and Democrats that the U.S. Congress should give him another two and a half months to secure a...
The Obama administration's commitment to take in potentially thousands of Syrian refugees is raising national security concerns among law enforcement...
Iran is “forever” banned from building a nuclear weapon under an existing international treaty, top U.S. diplomat John Kerry said Wednesday, seeking to...
One day after President Barack Obama sent Congress legislation backing the use of military force against ISIS militants, he was still searching for his first...
The Obama administration rules out handing over the U.S. naval base at Guantanamo Bay, rejecting a central demand of Cuban President Raul Castro for restoring...