NEW YORK, Sept. 8 (UPI) -- A group with ties to the White House is lobbying to stop a tony New York hotel from housing Iranian delegates to the U.N. General Assembly, a letter shows.

WASHINGTON, June 23 (UPI) -- The U.S. State Department maintains career diplomat Dennis Ross was not slated for a White House position as a top adviser on Iran.

WASHINGTON, June 17 (UPI) -- The U.S. State Department skirted claims that career diplomat Dennis Ross was slated to leave his job there to take up a White House role in Iranian policy.

WASHINGTON, May 18 (UPI) -- When the prime minister of Israel visits the president of the United States on Monday, Binyamin Netanyahu will say "Iran," and Barack Obama will say "Palestine." The two men look set on a collision course on both those issues.

WASHINGTON, May 1 (UPI) -- The U.S. envoy for the Middle East, Dennis Ross, left Washington on Friday for his first visit to the region carrying a message on the Iranian nuclear program.

WASHINGTON, March 4 (UPI) -- U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has brought her usual limitless energy and commitment to revive the Middle East peace process, but the Israelis and the Palestinians, while disagreeing on everything else, are united only in rejecting everything she wants them to do.

CAMP LEJEUNE, N.C., Feb. 27 (UPI) -- The following are remarks U.S. President Barack Obama delivered Friday at Camp Lejeune in North Carolina on U.S. combat troop pullout in Iraq:

WASHINGTON, Feb. 10 (UPI) -- As Hillary Clinton starts her first foreign trip, her diplomatic role is being eroded by Joe Biden, Jim Jones and the special envoys.

WASHINGTON, Feb. 6 (UPI) -- As U.S. and NATO forces are compelled to switch their Afghan supply lines from Pakistan to Russia and former Soviet republics, a long-term military commitment to nation-building in Afghanistan is beginning to lose its allure.