Paul Richter

-- President Barack Obama, facing a major new setback to his goals in Afghanistan as he weighs whether to send more troops, bluntly warned the country's leader Monday to get...

In the end, it took direct, explicit U.S. pressure to force the de facto government of Honduras to reverse the position it had clung to for nearly four months and...

Obama visits Dover to honor fallen soldiers -- President Barack Obama made an overnight dash Wednesday to Dover Air Force Base to honor the return of fallen soldiers, absorbing the...

Iran could face new pressure House panel OKs sanctions on refined petroleum sales WASHINGTON-- A House committee, seeking to pressure Iran to abandon its nuclear ambitions, adopted a bill Wednesday...

President Barack Obama's Middle East envoy ended his most intensive round of shuttle diplomacy Friday without an agreement on one of the administration's top foreign policy goals, restarting Israeli-Palestinian talks...

The gaffes keep piling up: the untimely comments stoking fears of swine flu, dismissals of Russia that seem straight out of the Cold War. But in defiance of the normal...

North Korea's surprise "special pardon" of two American television journalists Tuesday may have reopened the channels of communication between the Obama administration and the secretive regime that for years has...

In a potentially significant step toward repairing their tattered relationship, the United States and Venezuela have formally agreed to resume full diplomatic relations, the State Department announced Thursday. Department spokesman...

By sentencing two American journalists to hard labor, North Korea further knotted the Obama administration's tangled efforts to curtail the country's nuclear weapons ambitions and defuse rising regional tension. Amid...

The U.S. and allied powers threatened Monday to impose new penalties on North Korea after the regime announced a second nuclear bomb test, but their leverage in derailing the weapons...