A US church’s plan to burn copies of Islam’s holy book on the anniversary of the September 11, 2001 attacks has ignited worldwide condemnation. Top US commander in Afghanistan General David Petraeus warned on Monday that the action could put the lives of American soldiers involved in wars overseas at risk. US Secretary of State [...]

Palestinian officials say they will accept US calls for the resumption of direct peace talks with Israel if the new plan meets their demands. US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on Friday invited Israel and the Palestinians to resume direct peace talks hosted by President Barack Obama in Washington on September 2. The Quartet of [...]

A senior Iranian general says the US seeks to mask its role in the recent terrorist attack in the Iranian city of Zahedan by offering condolences as a humanitarian gesture. On Thursday, two bombs were detonated in quick succession in front of the Zahedan Grand Mosque in the southeastern province of Sistan-Baluchestan. The attack claimed [...]

US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has condemned the twin deadly explosions in the southeastern Iranian city of Zahedan in which more than 20 people were killed and over 100 others were injured. Clinton censured the “horrific attack” in a late Thursday statement following the blasts outside the city’s Grand Mosque in Sistan-Baluchestan Province, AFP [...]

Russia’s Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov says any plans for the deployment of a US missile system in Poland would be ‘unjustified.’ Ryabkov said on Tuesday that despite Washington and Warsaw’s failure to heed Moscow’s concerns, Russia “will continue the dialogue on the subject‏,” DPA reported. He also rejected US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s [...]

US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has flown to Azerbaijan’s capital where she is scheduled to hold talks with Azeri President Ilham Aliyev. Clinton arrived in Baku overnight on Saturday and is to discuss regional issues in the Caucasus with Aliyev. Among the issues high on the agenda will be the conflict between Azerbaijan and [...]

The United States and Poland have approved amendments to Washington’s planned missile system in Eastern Europe, despite objections by Russia. US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton signed the revised deal in Poland’s southern city of Krakow on Saturday. The new accord takes into changes requested by US President Barack Obama. The new deal envisage the [...]

Days after Iran issued a declaration on a possible nuclear fuel swap, Iranian foreign minister moves to criticize Washington’s stance toward the diplomatic statement. Speaking at a joint press conference with Burundian Foreign Minister Augustin Nsanze on Wednesday, Manouchehr Mottaki singled out remarks by US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton about the declaration and described [...]

The Afghan president says Kabul will take control over US-run prisons in the country, adding that it also has the potential to take over Afghanistan’s political and security affairs. Hamid Karzai made the comments in a meeting with US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on Thursday. The Afghan president, who wrapped up a four-day visit [...]

Afghan President Hamid Karzai has arrived in the US on a four-day visit amid rising friction between Washington and Kabul over a range of issues. Karzai will meet US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton later in the day. He is also scheduled to hold a joint press conference with his American counterpart Barack Obama on [...]

Iran’s Foreign Ministry Spokesman denounces as “irrational” remarks by US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton at the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) Review Conference in New York. “The points made by Clinton were not based on logic and global realities,” said Ramin Mehmanparast on Tuesday in a press conference. He added that Clinton’s statements were mostly [...]

US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has warned Syria against transferring “sophisticated weaponry” to Lebanon’s Hezbollah resistance movement. Speaking at an annual conference of another pro-Israeli pressure group in the US, the American Jewish Committee, Clinton reiterated Washington’s “unshakable” commitment to Israel’s security, warning Damascus, as well as Iran, against ‘consequences’ of threatening the Israeli [...]

Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez scorns US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton as an ancient thinker, charging her with interfering in Venezuelan domestic affairs. “She still considers herself the imperial lady. She is behind the times,” Chavez said during his visit to Ecuador on Friday. “She still thinks the United States is the owner of this [...]

US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton will visit Moscow next week for a Middle East quartet meeting and sideline negotiations about Iran. The quartet, which includes the European Union, Russia, the United Nations and the United States, will meet on March 19 to address a self-proclaimed goal of reviving peace talks between Israel and the [...]

US Secretary of state Hillary Clinton has criticized Israel after it announced plans this week to build new housing units in East Jerusalem Al-Quds. On Friday, Clinton told Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu that Tel Aviv’s latest settlement plans are a “deeply negative signal.” She also said that the move has undermined trust and confidence [...]

The US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton will depart on a five-nation Latin American tour next week in a bid to bolster ties and gauge the feasibility of Obama’s vision for the region. Clinton’s trip, to commence next Sunday, will first take her to Uruguay where she will attend the presidential inauguration of Jose Mujica [...]

Beijing once again has shrugged off Washington’s call for harsher sanctions against Iran over its nuclear activities. US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton recently said she expects the UN Security Council to impose new sanctions against Iran within the “next 30 to 60 days.” Clinton claimed that the US administration’s overtures to Tehran have helped [...]

Russia has warned that it will respond to NATO’s eastward expansions and the US plans for a missile defense system in Eastern Europe. In an interview with Russia Today, top Russian military official General Nikolai Makarov expressed serious concerns over NATO’s eastward advancements and the US defense shield system in Eastern Europe. Makarov called on [...]

Iranian Parliament Speaker Ali Larijani has said the West is trying to force Iran to give in to the pressure over its nuclear program. On Thursday, Larijani said the West is telling Iran that it must acquire nuclear fuel for the Tehran research reactor in the way the West wants. “The Westerners say, ‘You have [...]

US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton says the US is seeking the “strongest” possible UN Security Council (UNSC) sanctions on Iran over its nuclear work. In an interview with al-Arabiyya television aired on Wednesday, Clinton said that the US was focusing all its efforts on getting more sanctions against Iran. “We want to try to [...]