Pakistani Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi met with U.S. Secretary Hillary Clinton and urged the United States to articulate a long-term vision for the region, amid debate over U.S. involvement in Afghanistan. "The people of the region have to be assured that the United States has a long-term vision," Qureshi told reporters after his meeting on Tuesday in Washington. "Not just for Afghanistan and Pakistan but the entire region." Qureshi wouldn't comment on the debate in Washington about whether the ...

Gen. David Petraeus, the top U.S. military commander in the Middle East, was treated for early-stage prostrate cancer, said a statement from his office. He was diagnosed in February, the statement said, and underwent two months of radiation treatment at Walter Reed Army Medical Center in Washington. "The treatment is assessed to have been successful," said the statement, released to CNN by Col. Erik O. Gunhus, a spokesman for Petraeus, 56, the overall U.S. commander in Iraq and Afghanistan. The ...

The "vast right-wing conspiracy" that attacked him during his presidency has been weakened, but continues to operate against President Obama, former President Clinton said Sunday. On NBC's "Meet the Press," Clinton was asked about the term his wife Hillary Clinton, now secretary of state, famously coined. "Is it still there" host David Gregory asked. "Oh, you bet. Sure it is. It's not as strong as it was, because America's changed demographically, but it's as virulent as it was," the former ...

A U.S. drone crashed in northern Iraq Saturday morning, damaging the Mosul branch of the powerful Iraqi Islamic Party -- the nation's largest Sunni political party, a U.S. military spokesman confirmed. "He summited the mountain at 27,000 feet," spokesman George Arzt said. "He went down to a base camp at 23,000 [feet]. He slept and never awakened." Earlier, another Maloney spokesman had said her husband died in a "mountaineering accident." The congresswoman was in New York at the time of ...

Talks with Iran on its nuclear program might be more urgent after the Islamic republic's revelations of a second nuclear facility but trust will be an impediment, former President Bill Clinton said Friday. The terms of the negotiations will make or break the talks, Clinton said in an interview with CNN's Anderson Cooper. Now that Iran knows its nuclear facilities have been discovered, discussions might be worthwhile, Clinton said. Clinton compared it to past negotiations with Iraq. "It's just like ...

Former U.S. Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin will be in Hong Kong this week to address about 1,000 investors from around the globe in what is billed as her first speech outside North America. Palin, who recently stepped down as Alaska's governor, will make the keynote speech on Wednesday to the 16th CLSA Investors' Forum. She will cover governance, economics and current events in the United States and Asia, said Simone Wheeler, head of communications for CLSA. "What we ...

While some criticism targeting President Obama is racially motivated, the fight over health care isn't, former President Bill Clinton told CNN Monday. "I believe that some of the right-wing extremists which oppose President Obama are also racially prejudiced and would prefer not to have an African-American president," Clinton told CNN's Larry King in a wide-ranging interview aired Monday evening. "But I don't believe that all the people who oppose him on health care -- and all the conservatives -- are ...

The president is making a major address to the Congress and the country Wednesday night. This speech is high risk for him. NEW YORK (CNN) -- The president is making a major address to the Congress and the country Wednesday night. This speech is high risk for him. Selling a plan that is not completely developed and without accurate numbers of what it's going to cost ordinary Americans is not a surefire recipe for success. This is not ...

Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak has approved the construction of 455 housing units in the West Bank, his office said Monday. The move comes as Israel and the United States have been increasingly at odds over the settlement issue. U.S. President Barack Obama has insisted Israel freeze all settlement activity as a necessary step toward advancing negotiations with Palestinians. The Jewish settlements are spread throughout the Palestinian West Bank. Israel maintains the settlements are needed ...

At least 20 people were killed and 26 others injured, 21 of them seriously, Monday afternoon in a road accident in the mountainous Doda district of Indian administered Kashmir. The move comes as Israel and the United States have been increasingly at odds over the settlement issue. U.S. President Barack Obama has insisted Israel freeze all settlement activity as a necessary step toward advancing negotiations with Palestinians. The Jewish settlements are spread throughout the Palestinian West ...