America may launch a broader military campaign that targets an Islamic extremist group’s bases in Syria.

The US has demanded that Moscow remove an aid convoy it sent into eastern Ukraine without permission yesterday, accusing Russia of a flagrant violation of the sovereignty of its former Soviet neighbour and threatening more sanctions.

Russia was responsible for “creating the conditions” that led to the shooting down of Malaysia Airlines Flight 17, US intelligence officials said, but they offered no evidence of direct Russian government involvement.

The leaders of Russia and Ukraine have held their first talks since Moscow annexed Crimea, discussing ways to end their four-month conflict in a brief encounter during commemorations in France of the World War Two D-Day landings.

The United States has brought cyber-espionage charges against five Chinese military officials accused of hacking into American companies to gain trade secrets.

US President Barack Obama and Western allies moved to indefinitely cut Moscow out of a major international coalition today, including cancelling an economic summit Russian President Vladimir Putin was to host this summer.

Defiant Ukrainian protesters have seized control of the capital Kiev’s central post office, a day after clashes that left at least 25 people dead.

Barack Obama has discussed the National Security Agency’s surveillance programmes with the presidents of Mexico and Brazil, the White House said.

US president Barack Obama has arrived in Russia for a G20 summit overshadowed by a possible confrontation with foreign leaders sceptical of his call for an international military strike against Bashar Assad’s government.

President Barack Obama has cancelled plans to meet Russian president Vladimir Putin, a rare diplomatic snub and retribution for Russia’s decision to grant temporary asylum to secrets whistleblower Edward Snowden.

President Barack Obama is paying tribute to the man who inspired his political activism by taking his family on a tour of the island prison where anti-apartheid leader Nelson Mandela spent 18 years.

President Barack Obama’s visit to Berlin caps three days of international diplomacy for the president, and marks his return to a place where he once summoned a crowd of 200,000 to share his ambitious vision for American leadership.

The United States is considering a no-fly zone in Syria, potentially its first direct intervention into the two-year-old civil war, Western diplomats said, after the White House said Syria had crossed a “red line” by using nerve gas.

President Barack Obama has decided to authorise lethal aid to Syrian rebels but US officials are still grappling with what type and how much weaponry to send the opposition forces and how to ensure it stays out of the hands of extremists battling for control of Syria.

President Barack Obama has authorised sending weapons to Syrian rebels for the first time, US officials have said.

The US has conclusive evidence that Syrian President Bashar Assad’s regime has used chemical weapons against opposition forces seeking to overthrow the government, crossing what President Barack Obama has called a “red line” that would trigger greater American involvement in the crisis, the White House said tonight.

President Barack Obama and Afghan president Hamid Karzai have agreed to speed up the schedule for moving Afghanistan’s security forces into the lead across the country, with US troops shifting fully to a support role.

US President Barack Obama has launched a three-day Southeast Asia tour, hailing alliances with countries such as Thailand as cornerstones of the administration’s deeper commitment to the Asia-Pacific region.

Israel bombarded the Hamas-ruled Gaza Strip with about 300 airstrikes today and shot down a Palestinian rocket fired at Tel Aviv, the military said.

US President Barack Obama told Russia’s leader he would pursue further nuclear arms cuts with Russia, but would have more flexibility after the November election to deal with the contentious issue.

SEVERAL large explosions rocked the Libyan capital Tripoli last night and a column of smoke was seen rising from Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi's Bab al-Aziziyah compound.

A senior Obama administration official today said that US President Barack Obama’s state visit to Ireland will be a chance to celebrate the "enormous affinity" between the two countries.

President Barack Obama today condemned as “offensive” and “hateful” the suggestion of Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad that the September 11 attacks might have been orchestrated by the US government.

THE US was slow to take seriously the threat posed by homegrown radicals and the government has failed to put systems in place to deal with the growing phenomenon, according to a report compiled by the former heads of the 9/11 commission.