Mark Landler
Thursday, June 19, 2014 - 06:38
President Obama and congressional leaders on Wednesday privately confronted the politically delicate question of whether Mr. Obama would be required to ask Congress for permission to take military action against Sunni fighters in Iraq, but emerged from an hourlong Oval Office meeting with different views of what was said.
Monday, June 16, 2014 - 06:38
As President Obama weighs airstrikes against marauding militants in Iraq, he has concluded that any American military action must be conditioned on a political plan to try to heal Iraq’s sectarian rifts.
Friday, June 13, 2014 - 06:27
Most lawmakers and administration officials expressed caution in committing to American airstrikes against militant targets, as Mr. Maliki has requested. But some said it might be the only way to give the Iraqi security services time to reorganize and blunt the militants’ offensive.
Thursday, June 12, 2014 - 13:11
The president said his national security team was working “around the clock” to determine the most effective aid.
Wednesday, June 4, 2014 - 06:53
On April 12, 1994, six days after a plane carrying Rwanda’s president was shot down, setting off a wave of killings, Madeleine K. Albright, the American ambassador to the United Nations at the time, sent a cable to the State Department proposing that the United States take the lead in pushing to withdraw most of the United Nations peacekeeping force operating there.
Wednesday, May 28, 2014 - 06:06
Under a new timetable outlined by Mr. Obama in the Rose Garden, the 32,000 American troops now in Afghanistan would be reduced to 9,800 after this year.
Tuesday, May 6, 2014 - 05:40
As a delegation of Syrian opposition leaders arrived in Washington to plead for more American support, the Obama administration on Monday granted the group diplomatic status and pledged an additional $27 million in nonlethal assistance.
Tuesday, April 29, 2014 - 07:19
MANILA — President Obama, stung by criticism of his response to turmoil from Eastern Europe to the Middle East, defended his approach to foreign policy as a slow but steady pursuit of American interests while avoiding military conflict, and he lashed out at those he said reflexively call for the use of force.
Wednesday, April 9, 2014 - 07:27
While Mr. Kerry said both sides bore responsibility for “unhelpful” actions, the precipitating event, he said, was Israel’s announcement of 700 new housing units for Jewish settlers in East Jerusalem.
Wednesday, April 2, 2014 - 12:24
American officials, while rattled, said the Palestinians appeared to be using leverage against Israel rather than trying to scuttle the negotiations.