Washington

The U.S. ambassador to Serbia says he has been instructed by the U.S. administration to continue to strongly support Serbia in the EU integration process.

US President Barack Obama arrived in Cuba on Sunday, becoming the first acting US president to visit the island since 1928.

Shortly after his arrival, Obama delivered a speech at the reopened US embassy in Havana, where he identified the visit as "historic".

Washington weighed on the EU-Turkey migrant agreement closed Friday night in Brussels, saying the US was ready to increase its assistance to countries to stem the flow of refugees entering Europe. The US dubbed the EU Summit deal an important step for deterring the influx of immigrants into the EU.

The United Nations on March 18 decried the "carnage" caused by recent air strikes by a Saudi-led coalition in Yemen, saying the alliance was responsible for the vast majority of civilian deaths in the conflict, while Washington welcomed talk of an end to the Saudi-led coalition's major combat in the country.

Albania's opposition Democratic Party leader Lulzim Basha travels on Monday to the US with key aides for meetings with members of Congress and US officials to discuss democracy and the rule of law in Albania.

However, BIRN has learned that on the eve of the visit the Democratic Party signed a contract with the lobbying firm Podesta Group to secure access to Washington's top echelons.

If the U.S. congress had not imposed a two-term limit on the presidency in 1947 after Franklin D. Roosevelt's record four electoral victories, U.S.

Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlüt Çavu?o?lu and U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry have discussed recent developments surrounding the Syrian conflict, as the latter will visit Russia next week to discuss the Syria crisis.

Russia is ready to coordinate with the United States to retake the rebel strongholds of Syria's Raqqa and Palmyra, said Russian FM Sergei Lavrov, as United Nations-sponsored peace talks resumed in Geneva. 

The Greek Finance Ministry delegation seemed optimistic that a deal could be reached before March 25 with the country’s creditors, the ‘Quartet’, following their Sunday talks. Greece is trying to reach an agreement in negotiations with its creditors to pass an assessment as part of conditions laid down for in a bailout plan agreed upon in the summer of 2015.

Top Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) commander Omar al-Shishani has been "clinically dead" for several days after a US air strike in northern Syria, a monitoring group said March 13.