When North Korea's lead nuclear negotiator Ri Gun (left) makes his tour of the United States next week, all eyes will be on the State Department, which is planning to make the first face-to-face,...

Barack Obama did in fact deserve the Nobel Peace Prize, former prize winner and Soviet premier Mikhail Gorbachev said in an exclusive interview with Radio Free Europe. "I won it unexpectedly and...

The White House has responded to Israeli media reports today that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu plans to approve a wave of settlement construction before any settlement freeze comes into place. White House spokesman Robert Gibbs said in a stateme...

U.S. President Barack Obama will travel to Egypt next month to deliver a long-anticipated speech about America's relations with the Muslim world. Afterwards, he will visit Dresden, and the former...

Mahmood Karzai, the older brother of Afghan President Hamid Karzai, and the first vice chairman of the Afghanistan chamber of commerce, spoke at the National Press Club today. The subject of the...

Several lawmakers from both sides of the aisle told President Obama directly Tuesday afternoon they are concerned about his July 2011 time frame for beginning the withdrawal of U.S. troops from Afghanistan, according to Sen. Kit Bond. Bond briefed The...

Laura Rozen, former Cable author, gets some news on State Department appointments in the works: Victoria Nuland, the former U.S. Ambassador to NATO and wife of neoconservative writer Robert Kagan, is in the final stages of vetting for a senior...

The White House has now confirmed that President Obama will announce the addition deployment of 30,000 new U.S. troops to Afghanistan, as well as a plan to start withdrawing troops in July of 2011. Two administration officials briefed reporters on a...

President Obama will not announce a three-year time frame for withdrawing U.S. troops from Afghanistan, despite a CNN report to the contrary. "That's wrong. The time frame of three years is nowhere in the speech," White House spokesman Tommy Vietor...

As the entire development community was trying to gauge the impact of the ascension of Rajiv Shah to the top position at the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), the nominee himself gave the most detailed look yet into his intellectual...