WASHINGTON: US President Barack Obama said Tuesday that destroying the militant Islamic State (IS) group remains his “top priority” at a time when the militant group continues to lose ground in Iraq and Syria. “We continue to take on their leadership, their financial networks, their infrastructure,” Obama said at a meeting with senior military officials in the White House. “We ...

WASHINGTON: US President Barack Obama has urged India and Pakistan not to continue moving in the wrong direction as they develop their military doctrines. In his concluding remarks at the fourth and final Nuclear Security Summit, Mr Obama said that leaders from across the globe had gathered at the two-day event to discuss “one of the greatest threats to global ...

WASHINGTON: US Presi­dent Barack Obama said on Friday it will take time for Iran to rejoin the global economy, as the country’s leadership and citizens express unease that a sanctions windfall has been slow to materialise. “It will take time for Iran to reintegrate into the global economy, but Iran is already beginning to see the benefit of this deal,” ...

WISCONSIN: Republican presidential front-runner Donald Trump on Tuesday said that amongst all the presidential hopefuls only he can solve the problem of “radical Islamic terrorism”. During an interview with CNN anchor Anderson Cooper, Trump termed Pakistan “a vital problem” for the United States (US) “because they have a thing called nuclear weapons”, adding, “They have to get a better hold ...

March 30, 2016 | Richard N. Haass The US presidential election is still more than half a year away, and it is impossible to know with any certainty who will be nominated to represent the major parties, much less who will be the 45th occupant of the White House. But it is not too soon to assess the mood of ...

OPINION: With the formal end to five and half month of the Russian brief military intervention in Syria. Many analysts are busy drawing Russian Profit and Loss account in Syria. Since beginning Russia maintains the stand that its operation will last for limited time and there is no intentions of extensive military presence. Moscow was determined to avoid a protracted ...

Trump and Cruz call for increased surveillance of Muslims after Brussels attacks. ─AP/File WASHINGTON: US Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump said Muslims were failing to report suspicious activity and they must do more to help prevent attacks such as those that killed at least 30 people in Belgium. “When they see trouble they have to report it, they are not ...

HAVANA: Stepping into history, President Barack Obama opened an extraordinary visit to Cuba on Sunday, eager to push decades of acrimony deeper into the past and forge irreversible ties with America’s former adversary. “This is a historic visit and a historic opportunity,” Obama said as he greeted staff of the new US Embassy in Havana. Air Force One touched down ...

CLEVELAND: Hillary Clinton took a monumental step toward clinching the Democratic party’s White House nomination Tuesday, while Donald Trump’s seemingly unstoppable rush to victory hit a bump in Ohio. Trump won key Republican primaries in Illinois, North Carolina and Florida ─ where he thumped home state Senator Marco Rubio, who immediately announced he was suspending his presidential campaign. “This was ...

NEW YORK: The United States federal government changed rules for non-immigrant student visas on Friday, saying that international students will now be eligible to stay for three years after finishing their degrees for training potentially leading to employment. Only students earning degrees in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) fields from accredited higher education institutes and employed by employers participating ...