Peace Negotiations

Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, right, and Condoleezza Rice arrive at a press conference at Abbas' headquarters on Sunday in the West Bank city of Ramallah. (AP Photo/Muhammed Muheisen) By Joel Greenberg JERUSALEM -- On her sixth Middle East trip...

by Katie Fretland During Sen. Barack Obama's remarks to the press today in Amman, Jordan, he meant to assert that the United States would continue to strongly support Israel. But this is how that sentence came out as he answered......

by Mark Silva and updated with Russian and Bush statements. President Bush, declaring "solidarity'' with the people of Georgia, is dispatching Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice to Paris and then Tbilisi and sending a military and Naval armada of...

by Liz Sly BEIRUT -- Lebanon and Syria formally established diplomatic relations Wednesday for the first time since they won their independence in the 1940s, a historic move that was overshadowed by a bombing in the northern Lebanese port city......

by Mark Silva Candidate George W. Bush, in the first presidential debate in 2000, dismissively vowed to avoid "nation-building," suggesting that was a pursuit for liberals. And President George W. Bush, in the run-up to the Iraq war, disregarded the......

by Frank James That President-elect Barack Obama has been talking to Brent Scowcroft, the first President Bush's National security Adviser, is worth knowing. The Wall Street Journal reported that Obama has been talking with Scowcroft for some time. The...

by Frank James Andrew Cordesman, one of the Washington's top national-security experts, asks and attempts to answer some questions on a lot of people's minds right now: how does the fighting in Gaza stop and what can the U.S. do......

Clinton is delivering her opening statement -- delivering a lecture on the importance of diplomacy and "smart power," which unfortunately she didn't seem to grasp when she voted to go to war in Iraq in 2002. Her opening statement is......

by Mark Silva and updated We are hearing familiar words today, at the Senate Foreign Relations confirmation hearing for Sen. Hillary Clinton's nomination as secretary of state -- words heard in President Bush's many various statements on the potential of....

by Mark Silva President Barack Obama, planning a major public address at a Muslim capital early in his presidency, sat for an interview with al Arabiya at the White House today, on the day that he deployed retired Sen. George......

by Mark Silva The United States "will not stand for violations of international law,'' Susan Rice, the Obama administration's ambassador to the United Nations, said today, in the wake of a North Korean missile launch that flew in the face......

by Paul Richter Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said today that he wants to resume peace negotiations with Palestinian leaders immediately, but stopped short of embracing a fully sovereign Palestinian state, as the Obama administration has...