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American Jewish groups lobbying the Nixon White House on behalf of their Soviet brethren got under Henry Kissinger's skin in demanding intense pressure on Moscow to the point that he denounced them to a White House colleague as self-serving "bastards," newly released documents indicate.
Mexico can no longer be considered to have a free press because of the threats and violence associated with drug trafficking, but an eight-year decline in press freedom around the world appears to have begun leveling off in 2010, an independent advocacy group reported.
Political upheaval in Egypt complicates already gloomy prospects for new Arab-Israeli peace talks, longtime Mideast dealmaker Zbigniew Brzezinski said Wednesday, and he called on President Barack Obama to rescue the dormant talks with direct involvement.
Twenty-five countries showed significant declines in democracy in 2010 with little serious resistance from the democratic world, the watchdog group Freedom House reported Thursday.
The Republican gains in Tuesday's midterm elections say a lot about how the American public wants the government to rule here at home, but very little about what it should do abroad.
The outgoing U.S. ambassador to Iraq said Wednesday that after five months of post-election "pushing and shoving" by Iraqi politicians, raising concerns about U.S. troop withdrawals, Baghdad may finally be headed to forming a new government.
The shock of the disclosure of tens of thousands of secret documents about the war in Afghanistan has inspired a debate on the war, but had few other apparent aftereffects.
New British defense secretary Liam Fox urged wavering allies Wednesday to "see the job through" in fighting the Taliban in Afghanistan, saying: "We must hold our nerve."
Celebrated military leaders have capped their careers in the White House, George Washington, Andrew Jackson, Ulysses S. Grant and Dwight D. Eisenhower among them. But trumping America's tradition of rewarding victorious warriors with political office is the constitutional principle of civilian control of the military.
A fresh crisis in former Soviet Central Asia offers an opportunity for cooperation when Russian President Dmitry Medvedev calls on President Barack Obama at the White House next week.
With the two Koreas nose to nose, the Obama administration again is looking to China for diplomatic help to avert a military confrontation, dramatizing the United States' increasing reliance on one of the world's surviving communist regimes.
The Senate will begin hearings next week on a new treaty with Russia that would reduce the two countries' arsenals of long-range nuclear weapons by about a third.
A panel of arms experts critical of the Obama administration claimed Wednesday that Russia bested the United States in a new treaty designed to reduce the two countries' arsenals of long-range nuclear weapons.
Press freedoms shrank worldwide for an eighth consecutive year in 2009, an advocacy group says, stalling or reversing the expansion of independent journalism that followed the fall of the Berlin Wall.
For the time being, at least, everyone can take a deep breath. A senior defense official says the U.S. has ruled out a military strike against Iran anytime soon.
Like his predecessors, President Barack Obama is intent on leaving his mark on history, and he has chosen to do so by helping subdue the nuclear threat that bedevils the modern world.
President Barack Obama's choice to be the first U.S. ambassador to Syria in five years told his Senate confirmation hearing Tuesday he'll deliver "unfiltered straight talk" to Damascus about its support of terror groups.
Vice President Joe Biden's trip to Israel and the West Bank was designed to underscore the Obama administration's commitment to support Israeli security as it approaches indirect negotiations with the Palestinians.
Women's rights advanced in 15 of the 18 countries in the Middle East and North Africa over the past five years, the democracy watchdog group Freedom House reported Wednesday.
President Barack Obama weighed in Wednesday to try to hasten the conclusion of a new nuclear weapons treaty with Russia, urging President Dmitry Medvedev to help accelerate its completion.
For five years, the United States has shunned Syria, denying the Arab country the prestige and access that come with having an American ambassador in Damascus.
President Barack Obama has stressed the challenge of restoring America's credibility on human rights in his first year in office, but the results are mixed so far, a leading research and advocacy group said Wednesday.
The crackdown in Iran in 2009 highlighted a continuing decline in freedom and rights for the fourth consecutive year, the democracy watchdog group Freedom House reported Tuesday.
Americans are turning away from the world, showing a tendency toward isolationism in foreign affairs that has risen to the highest level in four decades, a poll released Thursday found.
Newly released White House tapes from the Vietnam War era portray President John F. Kennedy wrestling over the fate of South Vietnam's strongman in a situation that appears to mirror President Barack Obama's quandary today in dealing with Afghanistan's shaky government.
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