Veteran US diplomat Ryan Crocker is leaving his post as ambassador to Afghanistan this summer due to health reason, the State Department said on Tuesday.

"Today, Ambassador Ryan Crocker confirmed to

Mitt Romney has swept the Kentucky and Arkansas Republican presidential primaries, inching closer to the GOP nomination he is certain to win.

With no serious opposition left, the former Massachusetts

Pakistan President Asif Ali Zardari has got the message at the just concluded NATO Summit in Chicago that it is important to reopen ground lines of communication to Afghanistan, a top US diplomat said

US Defence Secretary Leon Panetta would travel to India on a two-day official visit in the first week of June, the Pentagon has announced.

The India trip, the first to the country by Panetta in

Sounding a fresh warning to Pakistan, a key Senate panel has voted to slash American assistance to Islamabad by more than half, approving only USD 1 billion in aid for fiscal 2013 and warned of fur

In a rebuff to Pakistan President Asif Ali Zar-dari, US President Barack Obama refused to meet him on the margins of the Nato summit in Chicago as the two countries failed to strike a deal on reopenin

Facebook shares slumped to more than ten per cent below their float price over the first hour of trading, as shareholders scrambled to sell shares in what had been pitched as the greatest growth story

A mechanism for Europe which will link together the missile defence assets from different allies under NATO command has been declared operational by the organisation.

Announced by the alliance 18 mo

US President Barack Obama is at loggerheads with his Pakistani counterpart Asif Ali Zardari, refusing to meet him apparently over blockage of NATO supply lines into Afghanistan, an issue which cont

Three members of the 'Black Bloc' group have been arrested in President Barack Obama's hometown Chicago on charges of allegedly plotting terror attacks during the key NATO Summit in the city.

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