AAMER MADHANI

File: US President Joe Biden walks down the steps of Air Force One at John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York, September 17, 2023. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

September 19, 2023, 1:36 pm

In UN speech, Biden to tout resurgent global role of US under his leadership

US president will emphasize to world leaders at General Assembly – and to 2024 voters – his ongoing support for Ukraine amid Russian invasion

By AAMER MADHANI and Seung Min Kim

India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi (center), US President Joe Biden (roght) and Saudi Arabia's Crown Prince and Prime Minister Mohammed bin Salman hold hands before the start of a session at the G20 summit in New Delhi on September 9, 2023. (EVELYN HOCKSTEIN / POOL / AFP)

September 9, 2023, 9:06 pm

Biden gives Saudi Arabia’s MBS a hearty handshake at G20 meeting

Biden’s warming to Saudi ruler has been decried by activists after US president vowed to make Riyadh a pariah for its human rights violations

By AAMER MADHANI and Josh Boak

Saudi Arabian Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman Al Saud, left, and US President Joe Biden, right, shake hands next to Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi at the G20 summit in New Delhi, India, September 9, 2023. (AP Photo/Evelyn Hockstein, Pool)

September 9, 2023, 4:51 pm

Biden unveils US-backed transport corridor to link India to EU via Mideast, Israel

Top aide calls inclusion of Jewish state in planned vast rail and shipping network ‘significant,’ but stresses move not a ‘precursor’ to normalization with Saudi Arabia

By AAMER MADHANI and Josh Boak

Russian President Vladimir Putin listens during a meeting in Moscow, August 23, 2023, left, and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un speaks during a meeting of the ruling Workers' Party at its headquarters in Pyongyang, North Korea, in early 2023. (Mikhail Klimentyev, Sputnik, Kremlin Pool and Korean Central News Agency/Korea News Service via AP)

August 31, 2023, 7:09 am

Putin and Kim Jong Un trade letters as Russia seeks North Korean munitions

US, UK, South Korea and Japan urge Pyongyang to end negotiations with Moscow, which is interested in obtaining artillery shells

By AAMER MADHANI

Russian servicemen inspect a part of a crashed private jet near the village of Kuzhenkino, Tver region, Russia, August 24, 2023. (AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko)

August 24, 2023, 8:18 pm

US believes plane carrying Prigozhin, Wagner leaders was downed by intentional blast

In preliminary assessment, US official says ‘very likely’ mercenary chief was targeted; Biden predicts Putin responsible: ‘There’s not much that happens in Russia he’s not behind’

By Emma Burrows and AAMER MADHANI

This image provided by Maxar Technologies and released by the White House shows an industrial site several hundred miles east of Moscow where US intelligence officials believe Russia with Iran’s help, is building a factory to produce attack drones for use in its ongoing invasion of Ukraine. (Satellite image ©2023 Maxar Technologies via AP)

June 9, 2023, 5:38 pm

US: Iran helping Russia build a drone factory east of Moscow for Ukraine war

White House says new facility could be up and running early next year as Moscow seeks to ensure a steady supply of arms for its invasion

By AAMER MADHANI

President Joe Biden speaks during the celebration of Jewish American Heritage Month in the East Room of the White House, Tuesday, May 16, 2023, in Washington. (AP/Manuel Balce Ceneta)

May 17, 2023, 3:40 am

Biden condemns rising ‘antisemitic bile’ during Jewish American Heritage Month event

US president touts administration’s efforts to combat antisemitism, reiterates decision to run for White House in 2020 was shaped by 2017 neo-Nazi march in Charlottesville

By Colleen Long and AAMER MADHANI

Iranian drone Shahed-129 is displayed at a rally in Tehran, Iran, on February 11, 2016. (AP Photo/Ebrahim Noroozi, File)

May 15, 2023, 10:19 pm

US says Russia looking to buy more Iranian attack drones as stockpile dwindles

White House accuses Iran of ‘directly enabling Russia’s war of aggression in Ukraine’ by supplying more than 400 UAVs since last year, warns cooperation could flow both ways

By AAMER MADHANI, Colleen Long and Zeke Miller

This image from a video released by the US Department of Defense shows US Marines around the scene at Abbey Gate outside Hamid Karzai International Airport on Aug. 26, 2021, in Kabul Afghanistan, after a suicide bomber detonated an explosion. (Department of Defense via AP, File)

April 26, 2023, 8:37 am

Taliban killed mastermind of 2021 Islamic State suicide bombing at Kabul airport: US

Held responsible for suicide blast that killed 13 US troops and 170 Afghans, terrorist was himself killed in a battle early this month in southern Afghanistan

By Farnoush Amiri, Matthew Lee, AAMER MADHANI and Lolita C. Baldor

In this photo provided by Maheen S , smoke fills the sky in Khartoum, Sudan, near Doha International Hospital on April 21, 2023. (Maheen S via AP)

April 23, 2023, 6:03 am

US evacuates diplomats, shuts embassy in violence-torn Sudan

US troops safely leave Sudanese airspace after airlifting American embassy personnel out of Khartoum

By Matthew Lee, TARA COPP and AAMER MADHANI

US President Joe Biden delivers a speech marking the one-year anniversary of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, at the Royal Castle Gardens in Warsaw, February 21, 2023. (Evan Vucci/AP)

February 22, 2023, 6:45 pm

Biden: Putin’s suspension of arms control treaty ‘big mistake’

In Poland, US president reassures eastern flank NATO allies that the US will remain by their side, vows that military alliance’s mutual-defense pact is ‘sacred’

By AAMER MADHANI

US President Joe Biden delivers a speech marking the one-year anniversary of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, Tuesday, February 21, 2023, at the Royal Castle Gardens in Warsaw. (AP Photo/ Evan Vucci)

February 21, 2023, 9:09 pm

Biden says West ‘has Ukraine’s back’ as he visits Poland to mark year since invasion

US president warns there are ‘hard and bitter days ahead,’ but pledges that the United States and its allies will continue assisting Kyiv as war set to enter its second year

By AAMER MADHANI, Zeke Miller and CHRIS MEGERIAN

In this photo provided by the Ukrainian Presidential Press Office on Monday, February 20, 2023, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, right, and US President Joe Biden speak at Mariinsky Palace during their meeting in Kyiv, Ukraine. (Ukrainian Presidential Press Office via AP)

February 20, 2023, 3:02 pm

Biden makes surprise Ukraine visit ahead of war anniversary: ‘Kyiv stands’

US President promises Zelensky the US will support Ukraine ‘for as long as it takes; air raid sirens ring out as two leaders walk to lay a wreath in memory of fallen soldiers

By EVAN VUCCI, John Leicester, AAMER MADHANI and Zeke Miller

A Russian Sukhoi SU-35 performs during the Dubai Air Show, United Arab Emirates, Monday, Nov. 13, 2017. (AP Photo/Kamran Jebreili)

December 9, 2022, 9:14 pm

US warns Russia is giving Iran ‘unprecedented military and technical support’

White House says Moscow moving toward full defense ‘partnership’ with Tehran, including air defense systems and fighter jets, in exchange for drones supplied for Ukraine war

By AAMER MADHANI and Zeke Miller

This undated photograph released by the Ukrainian military's Strategic Communications Directorate shows the wreckage of what Kyiv has described as an Iranian Shahed drone downed near Kupiansk, Ukraine. (Ukrainian military's Strategic Communications Directorate via AP)

December 8, 2022, 12:37 am

US says Russia seeking to restock supply of Iranian drones, missiles for Ukraine war

UN diplomat says Tehran’s sale of such weaponry to Moscow would violate Security Council resolution anchoring 2015 Iran nuclear deal

By AAMER MADHANI, Edith M. Lederer and Colleen Long