WASHINGTON: President Barack Obama must walk a fine line in a speech on Tuesday night as he highlights progress toward winding down the war in Iraq while trying to avoid any perception of a “Mission Accomplished” moment. The White House says the removal of all but 50,000 U.S. troops and the declaration of the end to the combat phase shows Obama is fulfilling a campaign promise he made in 2008 to pull out of Iraq
US President Barack Obama on Wednesday offered best wishes to Muslims in the United States and around the world as they observe the holy fasting month of Ramadan. All of us must remember that the world we want to build and the changes that we want to make must begin in our own hearts, and our own communities, Obama said in a statement released by the White House. The US president said he looked forward to hosting a White House Iftar dinner, the meal that breaks the daily fast.
Obama in Chicago :- President Barack Obama is on holidays and he is enjoying holidays with his family. Long Memorial Day holiday weekend will be celebrated by him with his family at home
WASHINGTON : US President Barack Obama said on Sunday that Americans had answered the call of history, after Congress sent him a sweeping health reform bill he said answered the prayers of the uninsured. “This is what change looks like,” Obama said, in late-night remarks in the East Room of the White House, soon after the House of Representatives voted to pass his health care plan after months of cliffhanger politics. A tired, but triumphant Obama said that despite the predictions of pundits that it was not possible to pass the mammoth bill, Americans had risen above their differences, though the measure passed without a single Republican vote.
US President Barack Obama will convene a meeting of his Afghan war cabinet today to assess the first major offensive of his troop surge strategy against the Taliban. The meeting in the secure White House Situation Room also comes after the reported capture by US and Pakistan spies of the Taliban’s top military commander, in what was apparently a huge blow to the Afghan insurgency
HONOLULU : Barack Obama Blames Al Qaeda Affiliate for Airliner Attack, US President Barack Obama on Saturday for the first time accused an al Qaeda affiliate in Yemen of arming and training a young Nigerian man for a thwarted suicide mission to blow up a US airliner. Obama, in his weekly radio and video address posted on the White House website, promised to hold the group, al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula, to account for the attack, declaring the United States was at war with a “far-reaching network of violence and hatred.” “We know that he travelled to Yemen, a country grappling with crushing poverty and deadly insurgencies,” Obama said, referring to the suspect Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab. “It appears that he joined an affiliate of al Qaeda, and that this group al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula-trained him, equipped him with those explosives and directed him to attack that plane headed for America.” Previously, US officials have not said publicly that the Northwest attack was the work of al Qaeda, though had noted there was a “linkage” with the terror group.
WASHINGTON: What can Washington do to face down a growing threat posed to US national security by al-Qaeda’s affiliates in Yemen? After a failed bomb attack on a US airliner last week, this question is soaring up the national security agenda
Barack Obama Vows to Track down Plane Attack Plotters, US President Barack Obama has vowed to hunt down all those persons behind the attempt to blow up US airline, saying that the perpetrators are present in Afghanistan, Pakistan, Yemen and Somalia. Replying to a question regarding current Iran situation, Obama said:“We stand by all those people who are fighting for their rights”
OSLO: President Barack Obama has said United States cooperation with Pakistan will be continued to curb the activities of the terrorists. Pakistan and Afghanistan would not let alone in the fight against terrorism and militancy, the US President reiterated in his press conference and television interview after accepting the Nobel Prize in a ceremony here. He said he has set the deadline of troops pullout from Afghanistan to inform the Afghan government the United States would not take responsibility of their security forever.
WASHINGTON : In an unannounced move, President Barack Obama is dispatching an additional 13,000 US troops to Afghanistan beyond the 21,000 he announced publicly in March, The Washington Post reported on Monday. The additional forces are primarily support forces – such as engineers, medical personnel, intelligence experts and military police — the Post said, bringing the total build-up Obama has approved for the war-torn nation to 34,000