Latest: The US has seen chemical weapons activity at a Syrian air base used for a sarin gas attack in April, the Pentagon said.

The White House has issued a warning to Bashar Assad as it claimed "potential" evidence showed Syria was preparing for another chemical weapons attack.

President Barack Obama granted Ms Manning clemency in his final days in office in January.

The US State Department said that it believes about 50 detainees are being hanged each day at the Saydnaya military prison

The Trump administration has issued a presidential permit to pipeline builder TransCanada to build the Keystone XL pipeline.

Donald Trump has hit back after a judge temporarily blocked his travel ban on people from seven predominantly Muslim countries.

The State Department has confirmed that the 35 Russian diplomats President Barack Obama ordered out of the country have departed the United States.

The president of the Philippines has hit out at ally Barack Obama in his latest tirade against the US over its criticism of his deadly anti-drug campaign.

Hillary Clinton has said her family paid a State Department employee to maintain the private email server she used while secretary of state.

Hillary Clinton and her aides at the US State Department were acutely aware of the need to protect sensitive information when discussing international affairs over email.

US secretary of state John Kerry yesterday expressed “gave concern” to his Russian counterpart about a sharp rise in separatist attacks in eastern Ukraine and urged an immediate ceasefire, the State Department said.

US Democrat Hillary Clinton broke her silence over a budding controversy involving her use of personal email for work when she was secretary of state, saying she wanted the US State Department to release them swiftly.

A health care worker who handled a lab specimen from an Ebola-infected man from Liberia who died of the disease is on a Caribbean cruise ship where she has self-quarantined and is being monitored for signs of infection.

The United States has suspended operations at its embassy in Libya and evacuated its diplomats to neighbouring Tunisia under US military escort amid a significant deterioration in security in Tripoli, the State Department said.

Two more military aircraft carrying remains of victims from the Malaysian plane disaster have arrived in the Netherlands, while Australian and Dutch diplomats promoted a plan for a UN team to secure the crash site which has been controlled by pro-Russian rebels.

The United States has ordered an aircraft carrier into the Persian Gulf as it laid out specific ways for Iraq to show it is united in order to gain assistance in its fight against Islamic insurgents.

Former US secretary of state Hillary Rodham Clinton said she feels “emboldened” to run for the presidency because of Republican criticism of her handling of the deadly 2012 terrorist attacks in Libya.

A Chinese warship nearly collided with an American Navy guided missile cruiser operating in international waters, US military officials say.

The Obama administration is asking Congress to hold fire on enacting new sanctions against Iran, to give negotiators flexibility in current nuclear talks.

US soldier Bradley Manning has been jailed for 35 years for giving hundreds of thousands of military and diplomatic secrets to the WikiLeaks website.

The US State Department is ordering non-emergency government personnel to leave the US Consulate in Lahore, Pakistan.

The US military has evacuated its non-essential government personnel from Yemen due to the high threat of attack by al Qaida which has caused temporary shutdowns of 19 American diplomatic posts across the Middle East and Africa

Amid online “chatter” about terror threats, US diplomatic posts in 19 cities in the Muslim world will be closed at least through the end of this week, the State Department said.

The United States issued an extraordinary global travel warning to Americans about the threat of an al-Qaida attack and closed down 21 embassies and consulates across the Muslim world for the weekend.

The United States issued a global travel alert today, citing an al Qaida threat that also caused the State Department to close its embassies on Sunday around the Muslim world.

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Bradley Manning goes on trial today more than three years after he was arrested in Iraq and charged in the biggest leak of classified information in US history.

The army private arrested in the biggest leak of classified material in US history has pleaded guilty to 10 charges that could send him to prison for 20 years, saying he was trying to expose the American military’s “bloodlust” and disregard for human life in Iraq and Afghanistan.

A soldier arrested in the biggest leak of classified material in US history, gave the first detailed explanation of his actions today, offering to plead guilty to charges that could send him to prison for 20 years and saying he spilled the secrets to expose the American military’s “bloodlust” in Iraq and Afghanistan.

A soldier charged in the biggest leak of classified material in US history has offered guilty pleas to 10 of 22 charges against him.

US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton sustained a concussion last week after becoming extremely dehydrated and fainting while suffering from a stomach virus, the State Department said.

A memo released on harsh interrogation techniques shows that a former USState Department official strongly dissented from the George W Bush administration’s secret legal view in 2005 that an international treaty against torture did not apply to CIA interrogations in foreign countries.

The US said yesterday that North Korea had agreed to a moratorium on nuclear tests and long-range missile launches and to allow nuclear inspectors to visit its Yongbyon nuclear complex to verify a halt to all nuclear activities including uranium enrichment.

The US State Department said last night the best outcome for Syria would be a political solution but if Syrian President Bashar al-Assad refused this “we may have to consider additional measures”.

India’s Sikh community has demanded an apology from US TV host Jay Leno, saying he insulted their holiest site while trying to make a joke about presidential candidate Mitt Romney.

Barack Obama has sparked a huge row by rejecting plans for a massive oil pipeline through the heart of the United States, saying there was not enough time for a fair review before a looming deadline forced on him by Republicans.

The United States has put the leader of al-Qaida in Iraq on a terrorism blacklist and offered a $10m reward for information on his whereabouts.

WIKILEAKS disclosed its entire archive of US State Department cables yesterday, much if not all of it uncensored.

An Irish ship has dropped out of the pro-Palestinian flotilla planning to break Israel’s blockade of Gaza, citing sabotage, and a US ship declared it may set sail from a Greek port for Gaza without permission, activists said.

France is bringing home its citizens from Japan on government planes and is sending 100 tons of boric acid to help stem radiation leaks from a damaged nuclear plant.

Bahrain’s capital Manama was in lockdown today with stores closed and roads blocked by police after a Saudi-led military force arrived to help quell the uprising against the ruling monarch.

State Department spokesman PJ Crowley has resigned after causing a stir by describing the Army’s treatment of the suspected WikiLeaks leaker as “ridiculous” and “stupid.”

Government supporters wielding knives and handguns attacked protesters in southern Yemen today, leaving one dead.