Rice's Tour of Mideast Yields Little Progress on Key Issues
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LONDON, Oct. 7 -- It was a tough week for Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice in the Middle East. On four issues pivotal to the future of the world's most volatile region, U.S. diplomatic efforts made no visible progress or came up against unexpected resistance during her five-day tour, according...
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US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice is targeting progress on foreign policy crises on North Korea and Iran, and will press for democratic change in Myanmar in a five-nation Asian tour this month.
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JERUSALEM, Feb. 6 -- Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice arrived in Jerusalem Sunday for talks with Israeli and Palestinian leaders on the eve of their first meeting in more than four years as the United States seeks to spur renewed movement in the stalled peace process.
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JERUSALEM - Prime Minister Ehud Olmert indicated yesterday there would be no major breakthroughs at US-sponsored peace talks this fall, prompting a Palestinian threat to skip the gathering. "If Olmert says there'll just be a declaration, it's not worth going," said Nimr Hamad, an adviser to the Palestinian president, Mahmoud Abbas. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice is traveling to the ...
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DEAD SEA, Jordan  - On her seventh visit to Israel and the Palestinian territories in under two years, U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice came away with no tangible results on Friday but said she saw promise in a Gaza truce.
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Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice met with top Israeli officials on Sunday to try to iron out a cease-fire and a deeper political solution to underlying disputes with Lebanon that have long vexed Middle East leaders and exacerbated nearly a month of fighting.
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Iran is a major obstacle to the US vision of a Middle East in which nations will "trade more, invest more, talk more and work more constructively to solve problems," Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice says
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Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice embarks on a new U.S. push to revive peace moves between Israel and the Palestinians on Wednesday after being criticized for not doing enough to resolve the conflict.
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Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice  on Tuesday held out the possibility of U.S. support to train  and equip Palestinian forces as she seeks to promote Middle  East peace on a visit to the region next week.
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RAMALLAH, West Bank  - U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice met Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas on Thursday to try to bridge his differences with Israel over what a U.S.-led Middle East peace conference might achieve.
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U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said on Wednesday "critical issues" would be tackled at a U.S.-led peace conference that Palestinians hope will move them closer to statehood.
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Israeli-Palestinian talks hosted by U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice ended on Monday with a vague promise to meet again and little sign of progress on reviving long-stalled peace moves.
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US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice is to meet Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas on her Middle East tour.
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Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice is renewing efforts to revive stalled Mideast peace talks, visiting the region this week for the first time since a U.N.-brokered cease-fire halted Israel's war with Hezbollah militants.
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Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice on Monday said she would return soon to the Middle East to push forward with attempts to restart peace making.
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Israeli-Palestinian talks hosted by U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice ended on Monday with little sign of progress on reviving long-stalled peace negotiations beyond a vague promise to meet again.
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JERUSALEM, Sept. 20 -- Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said Thursday that the U.S.-backed peace conference proposed for later this year must "advance the cause of a Palestinian state" but acknowledged that much work remains to be done before Israeli and Palestinian officials agree on an agenda...