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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.

President Barack Obama said he will explain to Americans and congressional leaders this week his plan to "start going on some offense" against Islamic State militants, who he said could eventually become a threat to the United States.
   

Obama and Cameron: Together against Russians

NEWPORT -- U.S. President Barack Obama and British Prime Minister David Cameron have pledged to jointly support Ukraine against Russia, according to a statement.

U.S. President Barack Obama has ordered a review of the distribution of military hardware to state and local police out of concern at how such equipment has been used during racial unrest in Ferguson, Missouri.
   

Under a decision taken on the August 15 and published in the official gazette on Tuesday, Tirana will transfer 22 million rounds of AK-47 7.62 millimeter bullets, 15,000 hand grenades and 32,000 artillery shells of different calibers to Iraq.

Tirana also announced that it is donating 10,000 model-56 Kalashnikov automatic rifles to Afghanistan.

Reading the Barack Obama interview by Thomas Friedman in the New York Times, I have come to the conclusion that we still do not know how to go from diagnosis to policy action. That makes us woefully unprepared for what is happening in the Middle East.

U.S. President Barack Obama has called Turkey’s president-elect, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, and "congratulated" him for his latest poll victory.

Obama called Erdoğan in the evening of Aug. 12 as a first in recent months. Erdoğan had earlier complained on a television programme that he couldn't speak to Obama "for a long time."

President Barack Obama announced billions of dollars in investment for Africa on Tuesday, as the United States challenges China and Europe's leading roles in the continent's economic emergence.
      

Africans see jobs, education and security as their biggest areas of concern, according to a poll on Aug. 4 conducted by ONE, the anti-poverty campaign co-founded by rockers Bono and Bob Geldof.
   

John Bass, who has been nominated by the Obama administration as new U.S. ambassador to Ankara, was approved by the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. The committee also discussed the approval of 10 other ambassadors, along with Bass, in the meeting. The General Assembly will discuss Bass’ nomination on an unspecified date.