The Obama administration has lost support of Washington’s political elite for the war in Afghanistan, a senior political analyst has told Press TV. “The political support in the elite has essentially dried up and there is really little chance that it could be successful in the future” said historian and investigative journalist Gareth Porter in [...]

US Defense Secretary Robert Gates says his country will keep a large number of its troops in Afghanistan even after President Barack Obama’s 2011 deadline for starting troop withdrawal. Despite mounting US casualties in the war-torn country, Gates said the US-led forces were making headway in the war. “I think we need to re-emphasize the [...]

As ethnic violence flares in east Africa, US Vice President Joe Biden has arrived in Kenya for talks about the situation in Somalia and Sudan. The US official was welcomed at the Nairobi’s Jomo Kenyatta Airport by his Kenyan counterpart Kalonzo Musyoka on Tuesday, a Press TV correspondent reported. Biden is scheduled to meet Kenyan [...]

The US vice president claims in an Egyptian visit that his country is looking for new ways to address the Gaza situation. “We are consulting closely with Egypt as well as our other partners on new ways to address the humanitarian, economic, security and political aspects of the situation in Gaza,” Joe Biden said Monday [...]

US Vice President Joe Biden says Israel had an “absolute right” to attack peace activists on the Gaza-bound Freedom Flotilla. “Israel has an absolute right to deal with its security interest,” Biden said in an interview on PBS’s “Charlie Rose” show on Wednesday. Biden said the US supported an Israeli investigation of the incident with [...]

Iraq’s government spokesman Ali al-Dabbagh has called on the United States to avoid any intervention in the issue of forming the country’s new government. Speaking at a press conference on Tuesday, Dabbagh said Washington has not intervened until now on the details of the government formation, but only observed the political situation in the country. [...]

Afghan President Hamid Karzai is in the US to try and turn the page on what is believed to have become a rocky relationship between Kabul and Washington. On Wednesday, the Afghan president is scheduled to meet with US President Barack Obama and Vice President Joe Biden. During his four-day visit, President Karzai will touch [...]

US Vice President Joe Biden renews western accusations against Iran’s nuclear program, which he alleged could trigger an “arms race” in the Middle East. “Iran’s nuclear program violates its obligations under the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) and risks sparking a nuclear arms race in the Middle East,” said Biden, at the start of a European [...]

Amid efforts to rally support for tougher UN sanction against Iran, the US has encouraged the European Union to continue pressuring Iran over its nuclear program. Addressing EU lawmakers in Brussels on Thursday, US Vice President Joe Biden said Iran’s nuclear program now risks sparking a nuclear arms race “in some of the most unstable [...]

Iran has slammed the nuclear threat issued by the US as a violation of the rights of nations committed to the peaceful use of nuclear energy. “Unfortunately at this point in time, with the impudent US threat of using atomic bombs, the rights of nations committed to the peaceful use of nuclear energy are not [...]

The United States says it has won China’s support to impose a new round of sanctions against Iran over the country’s nuclear energy program. Despite Beijing’s repeated rejection of such punitive measures against Tehran, US Vice President Joe Biden made the claim during a talk show on ABC television on Thursday. “China will agree to [...]

US Vice President Joe Biden dismisses the notion that Israel might attack Iran, saying that Tel Aviv has agreed to await the outcome of new sanctions against Tehran. “Everyone from the Israeli prime minister straight through to the British prime minister to the president of Russia, everyone agrees the next step we should take is [...]

Israeli Premier Benjamin Netanyahu leaves a White House meeting with US President Barack Obama without disclosing the nature of the talks. The meeting was held on Wednesday amid an alleged dispute between the two allies after Israel announced a plan to a 1,600-unit settlement in the occupied East Jerusalem (al-Quds). The announcement came when Vice [...]

Hundreds of Arabs, Muslims and British nationals have staged a rally in the center of London in condemnation of the visit by the mayor of Jerusalem (al-Quds) Nir Barkat to the British capital. The protestors, numbering around 300, on Monday evening criticized the British government for Barkat’s visit and urged authorities to arrest and prosecute [...]

The Zionist occupation authority is to start building 1,600 new housing units in Ramat Shlomo settlement to the northeast of occupied Jerusalem next September, Hebrew media reported on Sunday. Daily Ha’aretz quoted Zionist interior minister Eli Yishai as saying that the construction work would start in September. He pointed out that the date would coincide [...]

Netanyahu’ explicitly said on Monday, 15/3/2010, that his government will continues the Judaizing policy in the occupied city of Jerusalem, while the U.S. – Zionist relation witnesses the worst crisis of confidence since decades. Netanyahu said before a parliamentary delegation of the Likud party: ‘The construction will continue in Jerusalem as it was in the [...]

Despite international condemnations, Israel’s deputy foreign minister defends a new decision to construct 1,600 new settlements in East Jerusalem (al-Quds). Danny Ayalon, in Washington for a series of meetings with congressmen and officials at the State Department, said on Thursday that Israel would not make any more concessions for peace with the Palestinians. According to [...]

US Vice President Joe Biden, speaking at Tel Aviv University on Thursday, said that Washington has no better friend in the world than Israel. Some years ago “I said if I was Jew, I would be a Zionist,” Biden said, speaking o of his affinity for Israel since childhood. “I was reminded by my father [...]

Israel is planning tens of thousands of new housing units across Jerusalem al-Quds particularly focusing on the illegally annexed East al-Quds. On Thursday, the Israeli daily Haaretz quoted planning officials as revealing plans for some 50,000 new homes in al-Quds neighborhoods beyond the Green Line. The plans for nearly 20,000 of the apartments are already [...]

Arab League Chief Amr Moussa has declared that the Palestinians would not enter direct or indirect peace negotiations with Israel unless the regime halts plans to build 1,600 new homes in east Jerusalem al-Quds. Following an urgent meeting of Arab delegates in Cairo, Moussa said acting Palestinian Authority Chief Mahmoud Abbas had told him he [...]