President Barack Obama sought a ”new beginning” between the United States and the Muslim world on Thursday.
US President Barack Obama was in Egypt on Thursday to deliver an address that will be crucial to his efforts to repair US ties with the Muslim world.
The US president plans to send thousands of troops to train Afghan forces as part of a strategy that will focus efforts on destroying al-Qaeda havens.
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/ 28 February 2009
President Barack Obama said on Friday he would end US operations in Iraq in 18 months but leave up to 50 000 troops there to provide stability.
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/ 5 February 2009
US Vice-President Joe Biden will seek to break with the unilateralist tilt of the Bush years in a major weekend foreign policy speech in Germany.
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/ 22 October 2008
Jacob Zuma, widely expected to become South Africa’s next president, met US government officials on Tuesday to assure them it was business as usual.
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/ 21 October 2008
The financial crisis is a double whammy for police in many US cities: they face budget cuts as they brace for an expected surge in crime.
The number of United States soldiers to die in Iraq has reached 4 000, the US military said on Monday, just days after the fifth anniversary of a war that President George Bush says the US is on track to win. The US military said in a statement four soldiers were killed late on Sunday by a roadside bomb.
Mehdi Army fighters attacked police patrols in southern Baghdad, police said on Friday, further fraying a seven-month-old ceasefire called by Shi’ite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr to rein in his militia. The clashes in Baghdad’s Shurta district, which started late on Thursday and continued into Friday morning, follow outbreaks of violence in the southern Iraqi city of Kut.
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/ 21 January 2008
The United States military said on Sunday there had been a dramatic drop in the number of Iranian weapons being used in Iraq but no let-up in Tehran’s training and financing of Iraqi militias. Washington has accused Tehran of supplying Shi’ite militias in Iraq with sophisticated weapons, including armour-piercing bombs.