CNN - Eliot Engel, who is poised to lead the House Foreign Affairs Committee, plans to conduct a thorough review of US policy towards Saudi Arabia -- and that could include Jared Kushner's ties to the crown prince, Mohammed bin Salman, according to a Democratic aide. Engel is "committed to conducting a top-to-bottom review of U.S. policy towards ...

HANOI, Vietnam (AP) -- U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry said Friday he "profoundly disagrees" with the reasoning behind decisions by two prominent Democratic lawmakers to vote against the nuclear deal he negotiated with Iran. Speaking in the Vietnamese capital, Kerry said the facts do not bear out the arguments made by the Senate's No. 3 Democrat ...

US House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Ed Royce and Committees Ranking Member Eliot Engel said that US sanctions should be used to deter Russia from transferring S-300 air defense missile systems to Iran. WASHINGTON, May 1 (Sputnik) Washington should apply anti-Russian sanctions in response to Moscows plan to sell its S-300 air defense missile ...

[caption id="attachment_107851" align="alignright" width="205"] The new Republican-controlled Congress wants to poison the nuclear talks with Iran, Jim W. Dean says.[/caption] WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Republican chairman and ranking Democrat on the House Foreign Relations Committee are circulating a bipartisan letter to President Barack Obama highlighting ...

WASHINGTON (AP) -- The United States issued an extraordinary global travel warning to Americans Friday about the threat of an al-Qaida attack and closed down 21 embassies and consulates across the Muslim world for the weekend. The alert was the first of its kind since an announcement preceding the tenth anniversary of the 9/11 terrorist attacks. This ...