Foreign Relations Committee Senator Bob Corker

Two top Republican lawmakers have accused Pakistan of "duplicity" when it comes to fighting terrorism as they criticised the Obama administration for giving away US taxpayers' money to Islamabad.

The US government said on Friday that it had approved the sale of F-16 fighter jets to Pakistan. The deal includes up to eight F-16 fighter jets built by Lockheed Martin Corp, radar and other equipment valued at $699 million.

US lawmakers skeptical about the nuclear deal with Iran promised to press senior Obama administration officials to make more information about it public at a Senate hearing today as Congress begins its two-month review of the agreement.

The US Senate rejected an effort on Wednesday to tie sanctions relief for Iran under an international nuclear agreement to a requirement that President Barack Obama certify that Tehran is not supporting acts of terrorism against Americans.

US President Barack Obama offered condolences to the people of Jordan and King Abdullah II for the killing of a Jordanian pilot by Islamic State militants and declared that the US and its allies are determined to see the militants and their "hateful ideology banished to the recesses of history."

Republican and Democratic US lawmakers will press ahead with a plan for more sanctions on Iran, the chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee said on Wednesday, despite White House warnings that they risked derailing nuclear talks.

Two top Republican lawmakers have accused Pakistan of "duplicity" when it comes to fighting terrorism as they criticised the Obama administration for giving away US taxpayers' money to Islamabad.

The US government said on Friday that it had approved the sale of F-16 fighter jets to Pakistan. The deal includes up to eight F-16 fighter jets built by Lockheed Martin Corp, radar and other equipment valued at $699 million.

US lawmakers skeptical about the nuclear deal with Iran promised to press senior Obama administration officials to make more information about it public at a Senate hearing today as Congress begins its two-month review of the agreement.

The US Senate rejected an effort on Wednesday to tie sanctions relief for Iran under an international nuclear agreement to a requirement that President Barack Obama certify that Tehran is not supporting acts of terrorism against Americans.

US President Barack Obama offered condolences to the people of Jordan and King Abdullah II for the killing of a Jordanian pilot by Islamic State militants and declared that the US and its allies are determined to see the militants and their "hateful ideology banished to the recesses of history."

Republican and Democratic US lawmakers will press ahead with a plan for more sanctions on Iran, the chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee said on Wednesday, despite White House warnings that they risked derailing nuclear talks.