Obama Mideast Peace Talks

• Amid Ukraine crisis, Obama to meet Israel PM Benjamin Netanyahu on Mideast peace

  President Barack Obama takes a break from the Ukraine crisis to hold potentially difficult talks on Monday with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on U.S. efforts to keep Middle East peace negotiations alive.

• NSA spying threatens to hamper US foreign policy

  Secretary of State John Kerry landed in Rome and Paris to talk about Mideast peace, Syria and Iran but was confronted by outrage over the sweep and scope of US snooping abroad. President Barack Obama already has defended America's surveillance dragnet to leaders of Russia, Mexico, Brazil, France and Germany and was even quizzed about it during his ...

• Palestinians deserve a sovereign state and an end to occupation by Israel: Barack Obama

  President Barack Obama said on Thursday he is not giving up on stalled peace talks in the Mideast but that continued Israeli settlement-building in West Bank is not helping the cause.

• Obama preaches peace; Iran talks conspiracy

  He's hardly the first president to come this podium seeking Mideast peace, but Barack Obama is hoping against hope to be the last. "Now is the time for this opportunity to be seized, so that it doesn't slip away," he says. In his annual general assembly speech, he said he wants next year's to herald the seating of an independent Palestinian state.B...

• Obama opens long-shot talks on Mideast peace

  US President Barack Obama is opening a new round of Mideast peacemaking on Wednesday, bringing Israeli and Palestinian leaders together for talks aimed at forging agreement within one year on a two-state solution: A sovereign Palestine and a secure Israel.Expectations were low as Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Palestinian President M...