US Senator John McCain has accused the Obama administration of needlessly damaging the relationship with Pakistan and “antagonizing the Pakistanis” with an “in your face attitude.”In an interview with the NewsHour’sJudy Woodruff on Thursday, McCain said that the ...

WASHINGTON - US Senator John McCain on Wednesday said that ISI was still in contact with the  Haqqani Network, involved in attacks on US soldiers, which is condemnable act. Addressing a gathering at Carnegie Institute in Washington, McCain said that if Pakistan would not stop its support for ...

The new war strategy of a Nobel Peace Prize winner came under fire from both left and right yesterday as US President Obamas three most senior lieutenants endured marathon sessions on Capitol Hill to start selling the strategy to voters, Congress and the world. Their toughest challenge was not to ...

The ruling establishments in Pakistan wrongly believes that India is increasingly gaining control in Afghanistan, Senator John McCain has said. "India is very interesting, in my view, because there is a view in Pakistan that the Indians are taking control of the economy and forging close alliances ...

Pakistan should take steps that reduce the threat of a reoccurence of Mumbai-like terrorist attacks, US Republican Presidential candidate for the 2008 election, John McCain, has said. "This is what would satisfy the United States," McCain said at the conclusion of a Senate Committee hearing on the ...

President-elect Barack Obama on Monday will meet at his transition headquarters in Chicago with his Republican former rival John McCain, Obama's transition team said in a statement Friday. "Monday, president-elect Barack Obama and Senator John McCain will meet in Chicago at transition ...

Democrat Barack Obama leads Republican John McCain in five of eight key battleground states as Americans prepare to vote in the White House race, according to a series of Reuters/Zogby polls released on Tuesday. Obama expanded his national lead to 11 points over McCain among likely U.S. voters in a ...

Democrat Barack Obama heads to the finish line in the 2008 campaign with an 8-point advantage over Republican John McCain, according to a Wall Street Journal/NBC News public opinion poll released on Sunday. The poll, found 51 percent of likely voters favored Obama, versus 43 who favored McCain. ...

If the rest of the world could take part in the US presidential election, Democratic Party candidate Barack Obama would win four times more votes than his Republican rival John McCain, a poll showed Tuesday. In surveys conducted by the Gallup Organization in 70 countries representing nearly half ...

US presidential rivals Barack Obama and John McCain have clashed sharply over Iraq, but their differences on military issues appear rooted more in temperament and style than substance, analysts say. Both candidates support a bigger US military, both say more troops are needed in Afghanistan, both ...

Barack Obama counterattacked against a new Republican tactic by saying rival John McCain was more interested in a smear campaign than fixing the U.S. economy. With McCain losing ground in opinion polls, a campaign strategist was quoted as saying the Republican presidential candidate needed to ...

Democratic White House hopeful Barack Obama has surged to a 15-point lead over Republican John McCain in the latest US poll out Friday, by far the biggest margin of any recent survey. A US magazine's poll gave Obama 51 percent to 36 percent for McCain among registered voters nationwide three times ...

Unlike the knife-edge contests of 2000 and 2004, this year's presidential election could remake the US political map, and both parties will have to strain every sinew to wage a nationwide battle. The last two elections could have swung either way depending on the distribution of a few thousand ...

Senator Barack Obama of Illinois has sealed the Democratic presidential nomination, a historic step toward his once-improbable goal of becoming the nation's first black president. A defeated Hillary Rodham Clinton maneuvered for the vice presidential spot on his fall ticket. Obama's victory set up ...

Democrat Barack Obama and Republican John McCain fought a fierce political duel over Iraq Friday, in the latest testy escalation of their fast-evolving White House race.As Obama edged closer to the Democratic nomination, each man questioned the other's qualifications to serve as commander in chief, ...

Republican presidential candidate John McCain has distanced himself from President George W. Bush's handling of the Iraq war, telling veterans on Memorial Day he was "sick at heart" at mistakes made in the conflict now in its sixth year.  "As we all know, the American people ...

Democratic presidential hopeful Barack Obama on Friday accused Republican White House pick John McCain of distorting his foreign policy and making "empty promises" on Cuba. Obama also said that as soon as he became president, he would allow unlimited family travel and financial ...

Republican John McCain faced down Thursday a fiery evangelical pastor backing his White House bid who, it was revealed, believed the Nazis did God's will by chasing Jews from Europe. But while McCain disavowed the Texas pastor, John Hagee, the Arizona senator aimed a pointed dig at his Democratic ...

Republican White House hopeful John McCain and Democrat Barack Obama both face a balancing act to placate their parties' bases while also courting the floating voters of the political center. McCain carries a lot of baggage into the campaign for November's presidential election, having alienated ...

After starting out with radically opposing views, White House hopefuls Republican John McCain and Democrat Barack Obama appear to be moving closer together on Iraq as the election draws nearer. McCain had fiercely rejected any suggestion of a timetable for withdrawing US troops from Iraq, as ...

Barack Obama focused his campaign message against likely Republican nominee John McCain amid mounting signs that the historic months long battle with Hillary Rodham Clinton for the Democratic nomination was coming to a close. Obama picked up another superdelegate, bringing him within a half ...