The last US combat brigade pulled out of Iraq and crossed into Kuwait, almost seven-and-a-half years after the US-led invasion, media have reported.
President Barack Obama on Saturday reassured Americans that the government will stand by coastal residents as a massive clean-up forges ahead.
Diplomats say they were summoned to Zimbabwe’s foreign ministry and asked to apologise for walking out of a speech in which Mugabe attacked the West.
A United States judge on Wednesday blocked key parts of Arizona’s tough new immigration law hours before it was to take effect.
Barack Obama has claimed the disclosures about the mishandling of the Afghanistan war contained in leaked documents justified his new strategy.
President Barack Obama signed into law on Wednesday the most comprehensive financial regulatory overhaul since the Great Depression.
President Barack Obama and British PM David Cameron on Tuesday worked to patch up the "special relationship" between London and Washington.
Barack Obama tells SABC that al-Shabaab sees Africa as a place where life is cheap and innocents can be killed for little political cost.
President Barack Obama is thinking about jobs: looking for jobs for more than 14-million Americans and protecting the jobs of Washington lawmakers.
United States President Barack Obama urged Israel and the Palestinians on Tuesday to resume direct peace talks by September.
For years, the mantra that America’s intimate alliance with Israel was as good for the US as it was the Jewish state went largely unchallenged.
United States President Barack Obama has one man and one year left to win in Afghanistan. And this week, that man warned about the year ahead.
The US House of Representatives gave its final approval on Wednesday to the biggest overhaul of Wall Street rules since the Great Depression.
Russia and the US face their most serious diplomatic crisis of the Obama era after the Kremlin denounced the arrest of 10 US-based Russian spies.
The FBI has arrested 10 alleged Russian spies and broken up a "long-term, deep cover" network of agents across America’s east coast.
United States lawmakers finalised an historic overhaul of financial regulations as dawn broke over Capitol Hill on Friday.
Barack Obama has sacked the US commander in Afghanistan, General Stanley McChrystal, following disparaging comments made by McChrystal.
US President Barack Obama will confront his top Afghanistan commander on Wednesday before deciding whether to fire him over inflammatory comments.
The White House stepped up its legal battle on Wednesday over a key part of its response to the Gulf of Mexico oil spill.
BP chief executive Tony Hayward faced the wrath of US lawmakers on Thursday as he appeared before a hearing to apologise for the oil spill.
This was bound to be a difficult time for the company long known as British Petroleum, writes <b>Jonathan Mann</b>.
Under intense pressure from US President Barack Obama, BP has said it will set up a $20-billion fund for damage claims from its huge oil spill.
BP’s US chief faces accusations in Congress that the energy giant caused the worst oil spill in US history with a calculated strategy to cut costs.
The United States president, Barack Obama, will join forces with Nelson Mandela to mount an assault on the bestseller charts.
Obama’s leadership of the Gulf of Mexico oil spill faces key tests this week as the US president gives his first national address on the disaster.
US President Barack Obama said on Tuesday he wanted to know "whose ass to kick" over the Gulf of Mexico oil spill.
Under President Barack Obama, the US no longer provides Israel with automatic support at the UN where the Jewish state faces constant criticism.
The latest effort to siphon oil and gas gushing from a ruptured deep-sea wellhead in the Gulf of Mexico is working well so far.
BP began capturing some oil spewing from its ruptured well on Friday as Barack Obama warned the company against skimping on compensation.
<b>Rapule Tabane </b> on how to defeat Afro-pessimism.
This week’s deadly Israeli attack on an activist flotilla in the Mediterranean seems to have left the White House adrift.
BP’s "top kill" oil well plug failed on Saturday, practically killing any optimism among residents that the spill fouling their coast will end soon.