After the G20 summit on Friday, Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan said that his government would be willing to play the role on mediator between Iran and the incoming administration of President-elect Barack Obama. With neither the US nor Iran responding at...
President-elect Barack Obama's promise to close the detainee camp at Guantanamo Bay may seem straightforward, and indeed he had been talking about doing just that for much of the campaign. Yet this promise, or rather what to do with the detainees affected by this...
After previously announcing his intent to deploy Iskander missiles in the exclave of Kaliningrad, Russian President Dmitry Medvedev took a more hopeful tone, saying he believes negotiations with the incoming administration of President-elect Barack Obama may be able...
In an interview tonight on "60 Minutes," President-elect Barack Obama reiterated a promise, made often during his campaign, that he will close the detainee camp at Guantanamo Bay as part of an effort to rebuild "America's moral stature in the world." It has been...
Pakistani Prime Minister Yousef Raza Gilani said today that his government is in "regular contact" with the incoming administration of President-elect Barack Obama, and expressed hope that they would halt the US policy of launching drone strikes inside Pakistan....
Israeli President Shimon Peres says he believes President-elect Barack Obama may be able to unite the international community and force Iran to the negotiating table. However he also indicated that any talks with Iran would have to be predicated on them meeting...
There may be no concrete evidence of a specific plot in the offing, but political leaders and intelligence officials in both the US and Britain are warning President-elect Barack Obama that his fledgling administration may be an appealing target for a 'spectacular'...
In a report which will be presented next week to a conference on the future of US-Iran policy, the Associated Press is reporting that experts will caution President-elect Barack Obama that adding more threats against Iran will not help resolve disputes between the two...
In a follow-up on reports earlier this week that President-elect Barack Obama was considering approaching current Secretary of Defense Robert Gates about staying in his position after the handover of power in January, McClatchy is reporting that this has gone beyond...
As Obama's aides continue to try to stifle hopes for the radical policy changes that were a cornerstone of his sweeping electoral victory, the surest sign thus far that little is going to change after the January 20 inauguration is swirling reports that he may ask...
