The decision was announced during the U.S. president’s first official trip to the Southeast Asian country, and comes amid simmering territorial disputes with China in the region.
The former NSA contractor responded to reports the Pentagon turned against a source when information about the agency's surveillance program was leaked.
The deal was signed Monday in the presence of U.S. President Barack Obama and his Vietnamese counterpart, Trần Đại Quang.
A guerilla commander with a $5 million bounty on his head is reportedly among those under consideration to succeed Mullah Akhtar Mansour.
Barack Obama will become the first sitting U.S. president to tour the site of the world’s first nuclear bombing this Friday.
President Obama aims to boost defense and economic ties with the country's communist rulers while also prodding them on human rights, aides say.
Hillary Clinton says she definitely will be the Democratic presidential nominee and called on Bernie Sanders to help unite the party.
A British exit would rock the EU by ripping away its second-largest economy, one of its top two military powers and its richest financial center.
Pressure has mounted for Obama to use his landmark visit, which begins Monday, to roll back a 32-year-old arms embargo on Hanoi, one of the last vestiges of wartime animosity.
The U.S. secretary of state will underscore the need for more change during his first visit since the formation of Myanmar's first democratically elected government in 50 years.
The Democrat spoke Saturday at the Circle of Mothers Conference, one day after Republican Donald Trump addressed the National Rifle Association.
Some 69 million citizens are registered to participate in Sunday's elections to fill National Assembly seats.
A protest Friday in the heavily fortified section of Iraq's capital resulted in at least four deaths and 100 injuries.
U.S. Army Gen. Joseph Votel, accompanied by CNN, visited with U.S. special operations forces in the war-torn country.
Aides deny the president’s travels to Japan and Vietnam will constitute an apology tour for U.S. actions in World War II and the Vietnam War.
Global markets and policymakers can largely only wait and see what Britons will say at the polls June 23.
Officials say the man was openly brandishing a firearm as he approached the residence of the U.S. president.
Jesse Olivieri, from Ashland, Pennsylvania, was identified as the suspect shot Friday by Secret Service agents.
They will discuss economic growth, climate change, clean energy, and security and defense cooperation during the meeting on June 7.
Oklahoma lawmakers also were expected to consider a plan for separate but equal restrooms for transgender students.
Nguyen Van Ly, detained most of the past two decades due to his pursuit of democracy and religious freedom, was released Friday.
The NSG is a 48-nation club dedicated to curbing nuclear arms proliferation; Pakistan’s application will add to tensions with India.