U.S. President Barack Obama says the leaders of the Group of Eight (G8) remain committed to using a combined approach of sanctions and diplomacy to push Iran to show its nuclear program is peaceful.

U.S. President Barack Obama is scheduled to host NATO Secretary-General Anders Fogh Rasmussen at the White House on May 9 ahead of a NATO summit in Chicago later this month.

U.S. President Barack Obama and Afghan President Hamid Karzai have signed a strategic partnership agreement that will broadly govern relations between the two nations following the withdrawal of U.S. troops from Afghanistan at the end of 2014.

U.S. President Barack Obama has announced strict new sanctions against Iran and Syria.

U.S. President Barack Obama has been meeting with Mexican President Felipe Calderon and Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper at the White House for talks expected to be dominated by energy issues.

U.S. President Barack Obama says he believes there is a still a "window of opportunity" to use diplomacy instead of military force to resolve the dispute over Iran's suspected nuclear weapons program.

U.S. President Barack Obama has told visiting Chinese Vice President Xi Jinping in Washington that good U.S.-China relations will benefit the entire world.

U.S. President Barack Obama has signed an executive order imposing tougher sanctions on Iran and its central bank.

U.S. President Barack Obama says he does not think Israel has decided whether to attack Iran over its disputed nuclear program.

U.S. President Barack Obama says he ordered a raid by U.S. Special forces that rescued two kidnapped Western aid workers who had been held in Somalia since October.

In his annual State of the Union address, U.S. President Barack Obama laid out a plan to bring about more economic fairness and get more Americans working. He also highlighted his foreign policy achievements of the past year, and declared, "America is back."

Reports say U.S. military forces have carried out a raid in the eastern African nation of Somalia in which they have freed American and Danish hostages from pirates.

President Barack Obama is expected to call for more economic fairness in the United States when he delivers his annual State of the Union address.

U.S. President Barack Obama has signed into law a strengthened sanctions regime for Belarus in response to the government's crackdown on protesters following the controversial reelection of President Alyaksandr Lukashenka in 2010.

President Barack Obama says his administration has done more than any other U.S. administration to support Israel's security, and has described his commitment to Israel as "unshakable."

U.S. President Barack Obama has hailed the end of the war in Iraq nearly nine years after it began and promised that the United States will remain a strong partner as it rebuilds and reestablishes itself in what he called "a rapidly changing region."

President Barack Obama says the United States has asked Iran to return a U.S. drone that Tehran said it brought down while overflying its territory.

U.S. President Barack Obama has rejected accusations from Republican presidential aspirants suggesting that his foreign policy is timid and amounts to "appeasement" of America's foes by saying they should "ask Osama bin Laden."

President Barack Obama repeats that the United States is considering all options regarding Iran, and will work with U.S. allies, including Israel, to prevent Iran from acquiring a nuclear weapon.

U.S. President Barack Obama has called his Pakistani counterpart to offer condolences over 24 Pakistani soldiers killed in a NATO airstrike.

Amid a growing debt crisis in Europe and increased concern about Iran's nuclear program, top U.S. and EU officials gathered for talks on both sides of the Atlantic.

U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's trip next month would be the first such visit by a U.S. secretary of State in more than 50 years.

U.S. authorities have charged a 21-year-old man with trying to assassinate President Barack Obama after he fired shots at the White House. Oscar Ortega-Hernandez appeared in court today in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania to hear the charges against him, which carry a maximum sentence of life in ...

U.S. President Barack Obama has said that budget cuts will not thwart plans for a wider American military role in Asia and that Washington is aiming for expanding its role as a Pacific power.

Obama, who had talks at the summit with the Russian and Chinese leaders, said his preference was to resolve the Iranian issue diplomatically -- but that he would not take "any options off the table."

U.S. President Barack Obama says he and Russian President Dmitry Medvedev have agreed to devise "a common response" to new allegations that Iran has been covertly trying to build a nuclear bomb.

U.S. President Barack Obama says former Libyan leader Muammar Qaddafi missed his chance to bring democracy to his country and described his death as a message to dictators around the world.

U.S. President Barack Obama has hailed the declaration of freedom in Libya, saying "a new era of promise" has begun in the African nation.

The White House said that the United States will send a delegation led by Vice President Joe Biden to Saudi Arabia to offer condolences for the death of Crown Prince Sultan bin Abdul Aziz.

U.S. President Barack Obama's announcement ends months of debate over whether a small U.S. force would remain in Iraq beyond 2011 as a training force and bulwark against Iran.

U.S. President Barack Obama said that after January 1, America and Iraq will have "a normal relationship between sovereign nations, an equal partnership based on mutual interest and mutual respect."

Thousands of people are gathering in the U.S. capital to attend a dedication ceremony for a new monument honoring the slain American civil-rights leader Martin Luther King Jr.

President Barack Obama has announced that he has sent about 100 U.S. troops to central Africa to help and advise government forces battling Ugandan Lord's Resistance Army rebels who are accused of murder, rape and kidnapping children.