A United States military presence in the Pacific is essential to restrain Chinese assertiveness, Washington’s defence chief said on Friday.
US Defence Secretary Robert Gates on Friday held out the possibility of a resumption of six-party talks if North Korea ceases provocations.
North Korea’s main ally China must lean on Pyongyang to persuade it to abandon its nuclear ambitions, senior US officials said.
The United States searched on Saturday for the culprits behind a plot to bomb Jewish targets in Chicago.
WikiLeaks released nearly 400 000 classified US files on the Iraq war on Friday, some detailing gruesome cases of prisoner abuse.
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/ 11 September 2010
Nine years after the September 11 attacks, the US faces a threat from home-grown insurgents and an "Americanisation" of al-Qaeda leadership.
The Obama administration unveiled a new policy on Tuesday restricting US use of nuclear weapons.
US President Barack Obama is "not patient" and is demanding immediate changes in airline security, the top US military officer said on Wednesday.
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/ 20 October 2009
The United States cannot wait for problems surrounding the legitimacy of the Afghan government to be resolved before making a decision on troops.
Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe flew into Rome for a global food summit on Sunday, his first official trip abroad since elections condemned by Western and opposition leaders as fraudulent. A British Foreign Office spokesperson said: ”It is a matter of concern to us and we would prefer that he did not attend.”