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U.S. Vice President Joe Biden next month visits Ukraine as well as Turkey, where fighting across the border in the Syrian town of Kobane has sparked tensions with Washington.

During the week of November 17, the U.S vice president travel on to Morocco and Turkey, where he nis expected to meet with President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan.

A bid by Islamic State fighters to seize the flashpoint Syrian border town of Kobane has stalled, American officials said, with the help of air strikes reported to have killed over 500 jihadists.

Kurds fighting Islamic State (IS) in the Syrian town of Kobane have received US weapons and medical aid, the Pentagon says.

The move comes against the backdrop of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan's declarations over the weekend that Ankara would not allow Washington to supply the Kurds with arms.

The White House has decided to exhibit an Armenian 'orphan rug,' in a move that could also be interpreted as a diplomatic message to Turkey

The man who breached security at the White House this month raced through several rooms on the main floor, penetrating farther into the building than previously disclosed

In an emotional ceremony at the White House, Obama called Holder 'the people’s lawyer' and credited him with driving down both the nation’s crime and incarceration rate

The White House declared Friday, September 12, the United States was at war with Islamic State (IS) radicals, reports AFP, quoted by the BTA wire service.

In a series of television interviews Secretary of State John Kerry had appeared to be reluctant to term the expansion of US operations against IS „war."

President Barack Obama told Americans on Sept. 10 he had authorized U.S. airstrikes for the first time in Syria and more attacks in Iraq in a broad escalation of a campaign against the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL).

US president Barack Obama has announced a sustained, US-led effort to combat the Islamic State, which would include action in Syria.

U.S. President Barack Obama told leaders of Congress on Sept. 9 that he did not need for them to authorize his strategy to fight Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), ahead of a speech to Americans that may herald expanded operations against the group in Iraq and perhaps Syria.