WASHINGTON: Deadly setbacks, an Afghan leader at the "end of the rope" and pressure from a public weary of sacrifice are threatening to upend President Barack Obama's endgame for America's longest war.
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HONOLULU: The United States is considering Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh's request to visit, but would only grant him entry for "legitimate" medical treatment, a senior US official said Monday.
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WASHINGTON: President Barack Obama's key Middle East advisor Dennis Ross said Thursday he would resign after a tenure marked by stalled US peace moves, turmoil in the Arab world and Iranian defiance.
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WASHINGTON: US President Barack Obama said Friday he is sending 100 combat troops to central Africa to help and advise forces battling the Ugandan Lord's Resistance Army rebels accused of gross human rights abuses.
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WASHINGTON: US President Barack Obama will Thursday seek to sketch a plausible policy response to the sudden, complex and often contradictory demands thrown up by an "Arab Spring" of popular revolt.
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WASHINGTON: A crisis-battered presidency has revealed Barack Obama as a sometimes elusive, cards-close-to-the-chest leader, fixed on a political horizon often distant from Washington's daily partisan brawl.
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WASHINGTON: As a wildfire of revolt whips through the Middle East and North Africa, the White House is embracing pragmatism and shying away from embroidering a grand "Obama doctrine" for a region in turmoil.
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WASHINGTON: President Barack Obama on Thursday signed into law the toughest ever US sanctions on Iran, which he said would strike at Tehran's capacity to finance its nuclear program and deepen its isolation.
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Forty-six years after the Beatles invaded America, Paul McCartney rocked the White House Wednesday, honored by President Barack Obama at a star-studded concert celebrating his songwriting legend.
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WASHINGTON: Talks between US President Barack Obama and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu failed to produce signs that they had ended a dispute which Netanyahu said could block the Middle East peace process for a year.
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RIYADH: President Barack Obama launched a landmark Middle East trip on Wednesday to reach out to the world s Muslims, but earned a swift rebuke from Osama bin Laden in a stinging new audiotape.
Obama arrived in Riyadh to a red-carpet welcome and (...)