News Source: CNN
| 8 months ago
But Pakzad wants U.S. lawmakers to put women's rights at the forefront of any deal with Taliban moderates. She warned that the negotiations described by Obama and Biden could threaten the hard-won gains in women's rights in Afghanistan over the past...
News Source: Hindu
| 8 months ago
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and Foreign Secretary Shiv Shankar Menon agreed on the need to prevent another Mumbai-type attack. During the meeting on Monday at the State Department’s Foggy Bottom headquarters, the first high-level contact for...
News Source: Eurasianet
| 8 months ago
Combining statecraft with stagecraft, US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton appears to have turned around US-Turkish relations. For most of the Bush administrations tenure, Washington had a strained relationship with Ankara, but Clintons first...
News Source: Disinfo.com
| 8 months ago
Hillary Clinton raised eyebrows on her first visit to Europe as secretary of state when she mispronounced her EU counterparts' names and claimed U.S. democracy was older than Europe's. Clinton has set herself a grueling pace on visits to Egypt,...
News Source: Zaman.com
| 8 months ago
Well, I think it is quite significant that President Obama will be going to Turkey...But Turkey is an important ally, and there is a lot of business to do with Turkey, and we think it is significant that the President has decided to go," Robert Wood...
News Source: Zaman.com
| 8 months ago
Ankara is not currently involved in mediation per se, but Foreign Minister Ali Babacan said Turkey would consider requests by the two sides to serve as a mediator. He was speaking before departing for Tehran to attend a regional meeting late on...