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The helicopter trip was brief. But the journey also crossed something huge and ugly: Iraq's bloody sectarian divisions.
Barack Obama's offer to meet without precondition with leaders of renegade nations such as Cuba, North Korea and Iran touched off a war of words, with rival Hillary Rodham Clinton calling him naive and Obama linking her to President Bush's diplomacy.
Republican Mitt Romney on Wednesday jabbed at President Bush, saying the image of the United States has suffered globally based on the perception that it invaded Iraq unilaterally.
Most of the war hawks who stood with President Bush on Iraq are gone or departing, leaving Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney increasingly without much company in trumpeting steely resolve.
The Bush administration wants North Korea's attention, so like a scolding parent it's trying to make it tougher for that country's eccentric leader to buy iPods, plasma televisions and Segway electric scooters. The U.S. government's first-ever effort to use trade sanctions to personally aggravate a foreign president expressly targets items believed to be favored by Kim Jong Il or presented by him as gifts to the roughly 600 loyalist families who run the communist government.
America needs a "new realism" in its foreign policy and a concerted push for energy independence to safeguard national security, New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson, a former U.N. ambassador, said Saturday.
Top U.S. and European officials agreed Wednesday on urgent action to halt the fighting in Lebanon and on the creation of a multinational force to keep the peace. But the two sides had starkly divergent views of what that means.
As the United States toughens its stance on Iran's nuclear program, and bitterness toward America hardens on the streets of Tehran, many people can't help but wonder: Why don't the two countries hold face-to-face talks to ease the crisis?
A game of cricket is good for U.S.-Pakistani relations, but that's about as far as it goes. President Bush says baseball is where his heart is.
SENOBA, Turkey (Reuters) - Turkish military planes scoured the Iraqi border for Kurdish rebel camps on Saturday, army sources said, after diplomatic talks in Ankara to avert a major cross-border operation into northern Iraq failed.
ANKARA, Turkey - Turkish and Iraqi officials said on Saturday there were no plans for further talks between Turkey and an Iraqi delegation visiting Ankara to seek an agreement on cracking down on Kurdish rebels based in northern Iraq.
"This is a warning shot across the bow, not that the U.S. is going to invade Iran, but that Iran has pushed the level of escalation, particularly inside Iraq, to unacceptable levels," said Anthony H.
North Korea in a matter of days might begin to meet its pledge to disable facilities at its plutonium-producing Yongbyon nuclear complex, Reuters reported today.
Turkey and Iraq have agreed to work together to deal with the problem of Kurdish PKK rebels in northern Iraq. Turkish Foreign Minister Ali Babacan said Ankara would put the emphasis on diplomatic means to solve the crisis.
Perhaps the most dangerous police team since Baker and Poncherello is the Putin- Ahmadinejad watchdog alliance.
Secretary of State Rice announced November peace talks between Israel and the Palestinians.
ANKARA, Turkey, Oct. 15 (UPI) -- Kurdish leaders in Iraq vowed to increase efforts to stop Kurdish militants from provoking an attack by Turkey, KUNA reported Monday.
With several major regions of the world embroiled in violent conflict, it is sometimes easy to forget that there is an international organization currently operating with the express purpose of fostering diplomatic solutions to problems that could otherwise turn to war.
Condie is in Russia. I do hope she remembers to mention that Russia is supplying Burma with weapons.
If democracy in the developing world ever truly mattered, it would be time for USA and Europe to wield whatever diplomatic leverage with Russia, India and China they can muster, because together with Serbia these countries are the prime arms dealers to Burma.
Could Iran be the chink in Hillary Clinton's armor her opponents have been seeking?
Flynt Leverett, a former CIA and State Department Middle East specialist, says the United States cannot improve its image in the Middle East due to its perception as an "occupier."
President Bush will meet next week with the Tibetan leader-in-exile, the Dalai Lama, despite risks angering China.
WASHINGTON, Oct. 9 — A sharp debate is under way in the Bush administration about the significance of the Israeli intelligence that led to last month's Israeli strike inside Syria, according to current and former American government officials.
A senior Israeli diplomat in Santiago, Chile had a surprising encounter several days ago with the Iranian ambassador to the country, at an event launching a book about the history of a Zionist youth group in Chile.
While Iranian President Ahmedinejad stole the headlines during the United Nations meeting last week in New York, Bolivia's President Evo Morales - a humble coca farmer, former llama herder and union organizer - stole the hearts of the American people.
Iran's parliament voted Saturday to designate the CIA and the U.S. Army as ''terrorist organizations,'' a largely symbolic response to a U.S. Senate resolution seeking a similar designation for Iran's Revolutionary Guards.
"Empathize with your enemy" ... one of Robert McNamara's life lessons in a documentary that i'd like to recommend to everyone called "The Fog of War." He explained this snippet by expounding on Vietnam, the war for which he served as Secretary of Defense.
Russia issues a stern warning on the situation in Myanmar:
President Bush today will announce additional sanctions against the military dictatorship in Burma to support the push for democracy in that Asian country, the White House said yesterday.
"A grant from the Ploughshares Fund has allowed Cato foreign policy scholars to travel the country, address these important issues, and explain to a variety of audiences why war with Iran is not in America's interests.
In the run-up to Iranian President Mahmud Ahmadinejad's visit to the United Nations in New York next week, the Iran-bashing sentiment in the US media has escalated to new, unprecedented levels, with presidential hopefuls such as former New York mayor Rudolph Giuliani and the form …
U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice cautioned the U.N. nuclear watchdog group Wednesday not to interfere with international diplomacy over Iran's alleged weapons program.
Shortly after his IRGC-engineered win, Ahmadinejad, a former senior IRGC commander, vowed to "spread the Islamic Revolution throughout the world." With the full blessing of Khamenei, he staffed the top tiers of his cabinet and diplomatic corps with veteran IRGC commanders.
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