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Al-Maliki and Obama hold a joint news conference in the Eisenhower Executive Office Building on the White House campus in Washington.

In Syria’s shadow, Iraq violence presents new test for U.S.

November 3, 2021 at 6:11 p.m.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Saddled with Middle East problems ranging from Iran to Syria and beyond, President Barack Obama now faces one that is both old and new: Iraq. Unresolved sectarian...

In Syria’s shadow, Iraq violence presents new test for U.S.

December 24, 2018 at 2:06 a.m.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Saddled with Middle East problems ranging from Iran to Syria and beyond, President Barack Obama now faces one that is both old and new: Iraq. Unresolved sectarian...

Obama seeks end to perpetual U.S. ‘war on terror’

May 23, 2019 at 4:12 p.m.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Twelve years after the "war on terror" began, President Barack Obama wants to pull the United States back from some of the most controversial aspects of its...

Author Samantha Power being considered for U.S. diplomatic post

May 23, 2019 at 4:10 p.m.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Samantha Power, a Pulitzer Prize winning author, former White House aide and Harvard professor, is under consideration to be the U.S. State Department's top human rights official,...

Obama won’t rush to act against Syria over chemical arms

May 23, 2019 at 4:10 p.m.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama signaled on Tuesday he is no rush to respond quickly to Syria's apparent use of chemical weapons, taking a cautious approach to the country's...

U.S. B-2 bombers sent to Korea on rare mission: diplomacy not destruction

August 24, 2021 at 1:44 a.m.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The stealthy, nuclear-capable U.S. B-2 bomber is a veteran of wars in Iraq and Libya, but it isn't usually a tool of Washington's statecraft. Yet on Thursday,...

Afghan peace efforts show flickers of life

August 22, 2019 at 8:01 a.m.

WASHINGTON/ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - President Barack Obama and Afghan President Hamid Karzai will discuss matters of war, including future U.S. troop levels and Afghanistan's army, when they meet on Friday, but...

Special Report: Inside the West’s economic war with Iran

August 23, 2021 at 8:18 p.m.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - In his first week as U.S. president, Barack Obama told Iran's leaders he would extend a hand if they would "unclench their fist" and persuade the West...

Special Report: Inside the West’s economic war with Iran

December 25, 2018 at 1:05 p.m.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - In his first week as U.S. president, Barack Obama told Iran's leaders he would extend a hand if they would "unclench their fist" and persuade the West...

Top U.S. Mideast diplomat expected to take U.N. post

May 23, 2019 at 3:57 p.m.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Jeffrey Feltman, the top U.S. diplomat for the Middle East, is expected to leave the Obama administration to take a senior post at the United Nations, sources...

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