this new deal--when implemented--will place significant limitations on Iran that will effectively cut off its pathways to the fissile material for a nuclear bomb.
The United States will fly, sail, and operate wherever international law allows, as U.S. Forces do all over the world.
We will not allow the Russian Federation to gain a significant military advantage through its violation of an arms control treaty.
Vladimir Putin's conduct there has had the opposite of whatever effect he thought it might have in terms of attracting Ukraine in the direct...
I cannot emphasize enough the importance of that because that is mostly a matter for the European Union (EU) rather than the United States.
Ramadi needs to be retaken, and the way to do it is to have a force under the competent command and control of Iraqi Security Forces command...
I believe that a stable, multi-sectarian Iraq is the only way to ensure the long-term defeat of the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (IS...
we are trying to stick up for the principle that Iraq is a single, unitary, multi-sectarian state.
The current drawdown plan uses a time-phased approach for the withdrawal of United States forces.
We have serious concerns with Iranian malign activities outside of the nuclear issue.
Assad needs to go, but the structures of governance need to stay or we hope they will stay.