Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice opened an intense round of Mideast shuttle diplomacy Sunday, struggling to bring Israelis and Palestinians close enough to make a planned U.S.-hosted peace conference worthwhile. ...more

October 15, 2007

Two of President Bush's most senior Cabinet members pitched an unusual new missile defense partnership Friday to Russian President Vladimir Putin, but they received a firm public rebuke as the Kremlin made clear it remains deeply skeptical of the administration's foreign policy goals. ...more

October 13, 2007

A House panel voted Wednesday to approve calling the mass killings of Armenians that began in 1915 genocide, defying the White House, which warned that the measure would damage U.S.-Turkey relations. ...more

October 11, 2007

Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice on Friday ordered all diplomatic convoys in Baghdad to travel under the supervision of U.S. government security officials, a drastic overhaul of operations after allegations that the department's private guards, Blackwater USA, have engaged in unnecessary violence in the Iraqi capital. ...more

October 5, 2007

The United States will invite 12 Arab nations, including Syria, to President Bush's Mideast peace conference this fall, a senior U.S. official said. ...more

September 24, 2007

Pianist Leon Fleisher, actor Steve Martin, singers Diana Ross and Brian Wilson and film director Martin Scorsese will share the 30th annual honors of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in December. ...more

September 12, 2007

The Palestinian president and the Israeli prime minister are to meet early this week in Jerusalem before an expected visit by Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and key meetings of international mediators, officials said Saturday. ...more

September 9, 2007