US Senator John McCain visited Kabul Tuesday and warned neighbouring Pakistan that Washington was counting on its support to eliminate militancy and in particular the Haqqani network, responsible for...
A high-level US Senate delegation met Pakistan's top foreign affairs official and powerful military chief in Islamabad to discuss regional security as Washington gears up to send more troops to...
US Senate Republicans, facing potential collapse of their "Obamacare" repeal effort, were making last-gasp changes Thursday aimed at uniting different factions of President Donald Trump's party....
The new US ambassador to China said on Wednesday he would "love" to see terminally-ill Chinese dissident Liu Xiaobo get treatment abroad after prison officials granted him medical parole. Ambassador...
US Senate Republicans on Monday launched into a crucial week seeking to ram through the most consequential legislation of Donald Trump's presidency to date, but his party's support for the health...
Chants against the Saudi royal family and the Islamic State group mingled with the traditional cries of "Death to Israel" and "Death to America" at Jerusalem Day rallies across Iran on Friday. The...
US Senate Republicans were preparing to finally unveil their health care overhaul Thursday aimed at fulfilling President Donald Trump's pledge to repeal Obamacare, as Democrats ready a fight to block...
New US sanctions on Russia approved by the Senate will complicate the countries' relations, Russian President Vladimir Putin said in a TV interview Saturday. "Of course this will make Russia-US...
A notorious Central American street gang famed for its heavily tattooed members and torturing its victims has now established its self across the United States. As well as shootings, MS-13 is known...
A former leading federal prosecutor in New York has revealed he was sacked by Donald Trump after receiving several unusual phone calls from him. Preet Bharara told ABC News' This Week he felt the...
US President Donald Trump's personal lawyer has rejected allegations made by James Comey, the former FBI director, before the US Senate. Marc Kasowitz said Mr Trump never sought to impede the...
Fired FBI director James Comey withheld judgment Thursday on whether President Donald Trump's requests that he drop an investigation into his former national security advisor amounted to obstruction...
On the same day as President Donald Trump's actions were under intense and unflattering scrutiny in the US Senate, his wife Melania urged supporters to sign a birthday card for her husband that he...
Iran denounced Donald Trump's reaction to deadly Islamic State group attacks in Tehran as "repugnant" on Thursday after the US president warned the nation is reaping what it sows. Thirteen people...
US President Donald Trump on Wednesday expressed sympathy for the victims of a terror attack in Iran that killed 13 people, but issued a barbed warning that the country was reaping what it sowed....
General Manuel Antonio Noriega, former military leader of Panama, has died aged 83, officials have announced. Noriega recently underwent an operation after suffering a haemorrhage following brain...
Russian President Vladimir Putin is a bigger threat to world security than the so-called Islamic State group, according to veteran US Senator John McCain who also admits Donald Trump makes him...
John F. Kennedy -- young, heroic, charismatic -- embodied the overflowing promise of possibility of 20th century America, until an assassin's bullet ended his life in November 1963. One hundred years...
Hall of Fame pitcher Jim Bunning, who went from baseball to serving in the US Congress, has died at the age of 85, the Philadelphia Phillies said on Saturday. Bunning, a nine-time all-star, pitched...
For a president obsessed with deporting "bad hombres" from the United States, the Latino street gang known as MS-13 is the perfect target. Known for its horrific murders, in which victims are set...
