Since the Second World War, the use of rape as a weapon of war has assumed strategic importance and is now a deliberate military strategy, argue researchers.

US President Barack Obama has said that it was necessary to have a government in Pakistan that is working “effectively” with the US to dismantle terrorist outfits operating there and trying to destabi

A powerful US Senator has said that he personally cautioned against setting a date for withdrawal of troops from Afghanistan but asserted that US President Barack Obama is committed to the draw down o

US legislators finalised a historic overhaul of financial regulations as dawn broke over Capitol Hill on Friday, handing President Barack Obama a major domestic victory on the eve of a global summit d

US President Barack Obama on Wednesday fired his top Afghanistan commander over inflammatory comments that angered the White House and threatened to undermine the war effort.

A group of US senators on Wednesday introduced a legislation in the Senate to brand the Pakistani Taliban, linked to the botched Times Square bombing attempt, as a foreign terrorist organisation.

US President Barack Obama met his top Afghanistan commander on Wednesday to decide whether to fire him over inflammatory comments that angered the White House and threatened to undermine the war effor

The White House was set on Wednesday to step up its legal battle to keep deepwater drilling on hold in the Gulf of Mexico following the worst oil spill in US history.

Indian economy is likely to clock double-digit growth by 2012 and is expected to grow over 8.5 per cent in the current fiscal, the finance minister, Mr Pranab Mukherjee, has said.

America’s top military commander in Afghanistan has been summoned to Washi-ngton to explain derogatory comments about President Barack Obama and some senior officials, US officials said on Tuesday.