President Bush said Saturday that the United States is on track to bring home at least 20,000 troops from Iraq by this summer, but he stressed he is willing to halt the drawdown "in order to make sure we succeed." ...more

January 13, 2008

Concerned about the prospect of failure in Afghanistan, the Bush administration and NATO have begun three top-to-bottom reviews of the entire mission, from security and counterterrorism to political consolidation and economic development, U.S. and alliance officials said. ...more

December 16, 2007

President Bush, directly engaging the man he publicly called a "tyrant," wrote a letter to North Korea's leader, Kim Jong-Il, in which he held out the prospect of normalized relations with the United States if North Korea fully discloses its nuclear programs and dismantles its nuclear reactor, administration officials said Thursday. ...more

December 7, 2007

During the past six years, the Bush administration has spent almost $100 million so far on a highly classified program to help Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf secure his country's nuclear weapons, according to current and former senior administration officials. ...more

November 18, 2007

The House approved a revised children's health insurance bill Thursday that Democrats said addressed Republican concerns, but President Bush again threatened to veto it. ...more

October 26, 2007

The Bush administration plans to roll out an unprecedented package of unilateral sanctions against Iran today, including the long-awaited designations of its Revolutionary Guard Corps as a proliferator of weapons of mass destruction and of the elite Quds Force for supporting terrorism, according to senior administration officials. ...more

October 25, 2007

The Bush administration is advancing a proposal to levy higher premiums and deductibles on upper-income seniors enrolled in Medicare's new prescription drug benefit, raising fees on beneficiaries with more than $80,000 in income a year, administration officials said Thursday. ...more

October 5, 2007

The disclosure on Thursday of secret Justice Department legal opinions on interrogation set off a bitter round of debate over the treatment of suspected terrorists in U.S. custody and whether Congress has been adequately informed of administration legal policies. ...more

October 5, 2007

President Bush tried to turn a corner in the fractious debate over Iraq on Thursday night by ordering the first limited troop withdrawals since voters elected an antiwar Congress last year. The move did little to appease Democratic leaders who dismissed it as a token gesture masking an open-ended commitment of U.S. troops. ...more

September 14, 2007

President Bush will tell the nation Thursday evening that he plans to reduce the American troop presence in Iraq by as many as 30,000 by next summer but will condition those and further cuts on continued progress, The Associated Press has learned. ...more

September 12, 2007