US President Barack Obama has called on Iran to help find a political solution for the crisis in Yemen, amid ongoing Saudi aggressionagainst the people of the Arabcountrydespite an announcement by Riyadh that it is ending its air offensive. "We've indicated to the Iranians that they need to be part of the solution, and not part of the problem," ...

As the U.S. and other world powers closed in on a preliminary nuclear deal with Iran last month, a few senators were invited to a White House Situation Room briefing for a progress report. At one point, one of them interjected to ask about another sensitive negotiation: President Obama's vow to keep Congress from getting a say over a final Iran ...

WASHINGTON The White House relented on Tuesday and said President Obama would sign a compromise bill giving Congress a voice on the proposed nuclear accord with Iran as the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, in rare unanimous agreement, moved the legislation to the full Senate for a vote. An unusual alliance of Republican opponents of the nuclear ...

The presidents of the United States and Cuba have held unprecedented face-to-face talks in Panama, the first sitdown between the leaders of the two countries since 1956. The landmark meeting, which lasted more than an hour, was held between President Barack Obama and his Cuban counterpart Raul Castro on Saturday in Panama City on the sidelines of ...

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Defending an emerging nuclear deal, President Barack Obama said Iran would be kept a year away from obtaining a nuclear weapon for more than a decade, but conceded Tuesday that the buffer period could shrink to almost nothing after 13 or more years. Obama, whose top priority at the moment is to sell the framework deal to critics,...

US President Barack Obama says what threatens the Arab governments is the increasing dissatisfaction inside their countries, not the growing influence of Iran in the region. The biggest threats that they [Arab counties] face may not be coming from Iran invading. Its going to be from dissatisfaction inside their own countries, Obama said in an interview ...

President Barack Obama has answered continuing Israeli criticism of the framework agreement over Irans nuclear ambitions, telling the New York Times the deal is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to see whether or not we can at least take the nuclear issue off the table. The president added: There is no formula, there is no option, to prevent Iran ...

Below is the full interview transcript for the interview conducted by ABC News chief anchor George Stephanopoulos with President Barack Obama. This may contain errors and will be updated. THIS WEEK PRESIDENT OBAMA INTERVIEW TRANSCRIPT GEORGE STEPHANOPOULOS: Mr. President, thank you for doing this. PRESIDENT OBAMA: Great to be here. STEPHANOPOULOS:...

The United States has a long tradition of arming its allies to advance Washingtons foreign policy. In 1940, President Franklin D. Roosevelt called the United States the arsenal of democracy as he pledged thousands of ships, tanks and warplanes to countries battling Nazi Germany. Roosevelts characterization is no less true today. The U.S. government ...

U.S. President Barack Obama says he will not comment on reports that Israel spied on closed-door negotiations over Iran's nuclear program. Obama said the negotiations will only produce an agreement if Washington is confident that it will keep Iran from developing nuclear weapons. Obama said if there is an agreement, all sides will be able to ...

Historic agreement would be a monument to the US and Iranian leaders hence both men are being undermined by their conservative rivals Barack Obama and Hassan Rouhani make an unlikely double act. But as negotiators from the US and Iran race towards the 31 March finishing line for a nuclear deal, this odd couples destinies have become inextricably ...

[caption id="attachment_145857" align="alignright" width="236"] US President Barack Obama[/caption] A bipartisan group of 360 US lawmakers has signed a letter warning President Barack Obama that any sanctions relief on Iran as part of an emerging nuclear deal would require new legislation from Congress. The letter, signed by a majority of Republicans ...

[caption id="attachment_156116" align="alignright" width="244"] FILE - In this Feb. 27, 2015 file photo, Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla. speaks in National Harbor, Md. Eying the Republican presidential nomination, Rubio said March 17 he would "absolutely" defy stalwart European allies if necessary to revoke any Iranian nuclear deal he might inherit from President ...

[caption id="attachment_124040" align="alignright" width="212"] The chickenshit kerfluffle might be a little bit bullshit. Photograph: Jason Reed/Reuters[/caption] Punishment of Israelis for re-electing Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu was not long in coming from US President Barack Obama. Punishment for Israelis who chose to re-elect Prime ...

[caption id="attachment_148486" align="alignright" width="245"] Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell of Kentucky was among the 47 Republican senators who signed a letter to Iran warning that Congress could torpedo any nuclear deal.[/caption] Inside a top-security building at a classified U.S. site, government experts intensely monitor rows ...

[caption id="attachment_145857" align="alignright" width="209"] US President Barack Obama[/caption] Tehran, March 16, IRNA -- Several Democratic senators are breaking with the Obama administration on diplomacy with Iran, expressing their support for Republican legislation that would undercut a nuclear deal with the Islamic Republic, according to ...

[caption id="attachment_155686" align="alignright" width="235"] Beeman says the Republican-led Congress wants to embarrass Obama.[/caption] American political commentator William Beeman says the Republican-led Congress wants to embarrass President Barack Obama by undermining his efforts over Irans nuclear negotiations. The Senate and the House ...

[caption id="attachment_148486" align="alignright" width="223"] US Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell[/caption] (Reuters) - U.S. Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell said on Sunday that President BarackObamawas on the verge of making a "very bad deal" on Iran's nuclear program and made clear that Congress will weigh in on any agreement. "Apparently ...

[caption id="attachment_146991" align="alignright" width="225"] (AP Photo/Mandel Ngan, Pool)[/caption] Washington (AFP) - US President Barack Obama said he was "embarrassed" for Republicans who signed a controversial letter warning Iran's leaders about reaching a nuclear deal with the White House. "I am embarrassed for them," Obama said in an ...

[caption id="attachment_155041" align="alignright" width="228"] The chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee Sen. Bob Corker[/caption] WASHINGTON (AP) -- The chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee warned President Barack Obama on Thursday not to try an end-run around Congress by getting the United Nations to implement a nuclear ...