The White House is making a big push to rally members of Congress and the US public behind President Barack Obama’s plan for a military strike against Syria.

President Barack Obama is hoping his opponent in the 2008 presidential election will help sell the idea of US military intervention in Syria to the nation.

A French presidential official has said that France's president, Francois Hollande, has agreed to act with the US on Syria.

The US is open to talks with North Korea – but only if it complies with UN Security Council resolutions, senior officials have said.

President Barack Obama has named long-time foreign policy aide Denis McDonough as his next White House chief of staff.

Thirteen bound corpses, many apparently shot execution-style, have been discovered in eastern Syria, days after the massacre of more than 100 people provoked international outrage.

President Barack Obama will make his case for US involvement in Libya to an anxious American public tonight.

Pope Benedict XVI stressed the Catholic church’s opposition to abortion and stem cell research in his first meeting with US president Barack Obama.

In a riveting high-seas drama, an unarmed American crew wrested control of their US-flagged cargo ship from Somali pirates and sent them fleeing to a lifeboat with the captain as hostage.

The American crew of a hijacked US-flagged ship retook control of the vessel from Somali pirates today, but the captain was still being held hostage in a lifeboat, according three people on board.

US President Barack Obama heads to London on Tuesday for his first overseas trip since taking office, to take part in the economic summit of 20 major and developing nations that together represent more than 85% of the global economy.

President-elect Barack Obama will renew the hunt for al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden and plans to explore a more regional strategy to the war in Afghanistan, his national security advisers told US media today.

President-elect Barack Obama spoke to Russian President Dmitry Medvedev as the future American head of state had another round of phone calls with leaders in other nations.