The President spoke with Afghan presidential candidates Dr. Abdullah Abdullah and Dr. Ashraf Ghani on Saturday.  The President emphasized the importance of concluding a deal on the national unity government as soon as possible in the interest of shoring up…

In advance of his remarks on Tuesday to commemorate next Saturday’s 20th Anniversary of the Violence Against Women Act, Vice President Biden penned the following op-ed in Delaware’s The News Journal. http://www.delawareonline.com/story/opinion/contributors/2014/09/06/hard-fight-end-violence-women/15199597/ The hard fight to end violence against women…

Yesterday, at the direction of the President and in coordination with the Government of Iraq, the U.S. military conducted airstrikes against Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) positions in Iraq, in support of Iraqi Security Forces’ efforts to…