John McCain

Prime Minister Aleksandar Vucic on Friday welcomed and met with U.S. Senator John McCain, who led a delegation of the U.S. Congress.

Vucic said after the talks said that he and the senators discussed global issues, including the migrant crisis, and that he told them "Serbia will not raise walls in the future, either, because that is neither a European, nor a civilized solution."

U.S. Senator John McCain will on Friday visit Belgrade accompanied by four more Republican and one Democratic senator.

Tanjug reported this late on Thursday, quoting government sources.

U.S. military commanders have been given the authority to target the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) militants in Afghanistan, the Pentagon said on Jan. 21, the first such order beyond Iraq and Syria, where the militants control parts of both countries.

Turkey and the United States should ally closer in security and military terms to overcome violence in the Middle East, said Union of Chambers and Commodity Exchanges of Turkey (TOBB) President Rifat Hisarc?kl?o?lu at an annual meeting of the American-Turkish Council (ATC) in Washington.

Real estate magnate Donald Trump moved to the top of the 2016 Republican presidential field in a CNN poll released on July 26, edging out rival Jeb Bush and gaining support from Republicans in the last month despite a series of controversial statements. 

Senator John McCain urged Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump on July 20 to apologize to U.S. military families for saying prisoners of war are not heroes, in his first direct response to Trump's remarks.

Donald Trump blustered his way into more trouble as he criticized U.S. Sen. John McCain's war record at a conservative forum, overshadowing fellow presidential candidates promoting their credentials to evangelical Christians.
     

Bulgaria's Foreign Minister Daniel Mitov will discuss the latest developments in the country's partnership with the United States during a working visit to Washington, D.C. this week.

Only about 60 Syrian rebels are being trained by the United States to take on the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), Defense Secretary Ashton Carter said July 7, admitting it was far below the number hoped for.

Serbian Prime Minister Aleksandar Vucic met with U.S. Senate Armed Services Committee Chairman Senator John McCain.

"USA will support our EU path. With Chairman of the Senate Committee on Armed Services, Sen JohnMcCain," Vucic wrote on Twitter on Wednesday and posted two photographs with McCain.