Helene Cooper Nyt News Service

The White House sought to reassert control over the public debate on the Afghanistan war on Monday as political reaction to the disclosure of a six-year archive of classified military documents increased the pressure on President Obama to defend his war strategy.

US President Barack Obama has accepted General Stanley McChrystal's resignation as the top US Commander in Afghanistan and is replacing him with General David Petraeus, head of US Central Command.

Gen Stanley A McChrystal left the White House after meeting with President Obama for about 20 minutes, departing ahead of a meeting on the Afghanistan war scheduled for later Wednesday morning, but there was no immediate word on whether he would keep his job as the top American commander in Afghanistan.

President Obama's top commander in Afghanistan flew to Washington on Tuesday to find out whether he would be fired for remarks he and members of his staff made that were contemptuous of senior administration officials, laying bare the disarray and enmity in a foreign-policy team that is struggling with the war. (Read: Who is Gen McChrystal) In an a...

BP's embattled chief executive, Tony Hayward, prepared to tell Congress on Thursday that he was "deeply sorry" for the oil disaster in the Gulf of Mexico, seeking to demonstrate that he and the oil giant understood the enormity of the spill's environmental, economic and human toll.Mr. Hayward has faced withering criticism for his response to the sp...

US President Obama summoned Americans on Tuesday to a "national mission" to move away from reliance on oil and develop alternative sources of energy, demanding that Congress move quickly to overcome "a lack of political courage and candor." Speaking to a national television audience from the Oval Office, Mr. Obama also promised a long-term plan to ...

The Obama administration said on Tuesday that it had begun civil and criminal investigations into the massive oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, as the deepening crisis threatened to define President Obama's second year in office. Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. said in New Orleans that he planned to "prosecute to the fullest extent of the law" a...

Israel's deadly commando raid on Monday on a flotilla trying to break a blockade of Gaza complicated President Obama's efforts to move ahead on Middle East peace negotiations and introduced a new strain into an already tense relationship between the United States and Israel.

US President Barack Obama has made good on a promise to give his $1.4 million in Nobel Peace Prize money to charity.

US President Barack Obama has officially announced 30,000 more troops will be dispatched to Afghanistan at the earliest.

The United States is not threatened by a rising China, President Barack Obama said Saturday.

President Hamid Karzai's concession of the need for a runoff election in Afghanistan appears to have prevented his country from slipping into paralysis.

The White House sought to reassert control over the public debate on the Afghanistan war on Monday as political reaction to the disclosure of a six-year archive of classified military documents increased the pressure on President Obama to defend his war strategy.

US President Barack Obama has accepted General Stanley McChrystal's resignation as the top US Commander in Afghanistan and is replacing him with General David Petraeus, head of US Central Command.

Gen Stanley A McChrystal left the White House after meeting with President Obama for about 20 minutes, departing ahead of a meeting on the Afghanistan war scheduled for later Wednesday morning, but there was no immediate word on whether he would keep his job as the top American commander in Afghanistan.

President Obama's top commander in Afghanistan flew to Washington on Tuesday to find out whether he would be fired for remarks he and members of his staff made that were contemptuous of senior administration officials, laying bare the disarray and enmity in a foreign-policy team that is struggling with the war. (Read: Who is Gen McChrystal) In an a...

BP's embattled chief executive, Tony Hayward, prepared to tell Congress on Thursday that he was "deeply sorry" for the oil disaster in the Gulf of Mexico, seeking to demonstrate that he and the oil giant understood the enormity of the spill's environmental, economic and human toll.Mr. Hayward has faced withering criticism for his response to the sp...

US President Obama summoned Americans on Tuesday to a "national mission" to move away from reliance on oil and develop alternative sources of energy, demanding that Congress move quickly to overcome "a lack of political courage and candor." Speaking to a national television audience from the Oval Office, Mr. Obama also promised a long-term plan to ...

The Obama administration said on Tuesday that it had begun civil and criminal investigations into the massive oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, as the deepening crisis threatened to define President Obama's second year in office. Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. said in New Orleans that he planned to "prosecute to the fullest extent of the law" a...

Israel's deadly commando raid on Monday on a flotilla trying to break a blockade of Gaza complicated President Obama's efforts to move ahead on Middle East peace negotiations and introduced a new strain into an already tense relationship between the United States and Israel.

US President Barack Obama has made good on a promise to give his $1.4 million in Nobel Peace Prize money to charity.

US President Barack Obama has officially announced 30,000 more troops will be dispatched to Afghanistan at the earliest.

The United States is not threatened by a rising China, President Barack Obama said Saturday.

President Hamid Karzai's concession of the need for a runoff election in Afghanistan appears to have prevented his country from slipping into paralysis.