*WASHINGTON - * An influential US lawmaker has introduced a legislation in Congress to terminate the designation of Pakistan as a major non-NATO ally. Introduced by Republican Congressman Andy Briggs, the resolution 73, introduced in the House of Representatives, seeks termination of ...

WASHINGTON: The US military has begun moving non-essential gear out of Syria but is not withdrawing troops for now, defense officials said amid uncertainty over America’s planned exit from the war-battered nation. President Donald Trump last month claimed the Islamic State group had been ...

*WASHINGTON DC: *Former UN Ambassador Nikki Haley and US President Donald Trump’s daughter and adviser Ivanka are among possible US candidates to replace outgoing World Bank President Jim Yong Kim, The Financial Times reported on Friday. Kim abruptly announced Monday he was cutting short his ...

WASHINGTON - Tulsi Gabbard, the first Hindu lawmaker in the US Congress, has said that she is running for the White House in 2020. Gabbard, 37, is the second woman after Senator Elizabeth Warren to enter the presidential race from the Democratic party. More than 12 Democratic leaders including ...

WASHINGTON - The US government shutdown that has left 800,000 federal employees without salaries as a result of President Donald Trump's row with Democrats over building a Mexico border wall entered a record 22nd day Saturday. The Democrats' refusal to approve $5.7 billion demanded by Trump for ...

WASHINGTON - Concerned over US President Donald Trump’s decision to fire the Director of Federal Bureau of Investigation, James Comey, in May 2017, the FBI reportedly opened an investigation into whether Trump was secretly working on behalf of Russia, according to a New York Times report ...

MCALLEN, TEXAS: United States President Donald Trump even doesn't know the location of Pakistan. He on Friday called Pakistanis ‘people from Middle East’ in his argument to build a wall along his country’s Mexican border and step up the ante in a drawn-out battle with Congress over release ...

McAllen, United States - President Donald Trump has again threatened to declare a national emergency along the border with Mexico as he seeks funding for a wall he says will keep out dangerous immigrants -- his latest jab in a fight with Democrats in Congress that has now shut down parts of the ...

CAIRO - US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo vowed Thursday the United States and its allies would chase all Iranian troops from Syria, and urged Middle East nations to forge a common stand against Tehran. "It’s time for old rivalries to end, for the sake of the greater good of the region," said ...

ANKARA - Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan has reportedly refused to meet US NSA Bolton. If the visiting U.S. national security aide wants to speak to a Turkish official, he should talk with the presidential spokesman, said Turkey’s president on Tuesday. President Erdogan turning down a ...