AP The Kremlin says President Vladimir Putin will be discussing arms control, Iran and Syria at upcoming talks with visiting U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo. Pompeo is arriving in Russias Black Sea resort of Sochi Tuesday for talks with Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov. He is expected to meet with Putin after that. Putins spokesman, Dmitry ...

Reuters - Russian President Vladimir Putin and U.S. President Donald Trump are scheduled to meet for talks at 1430 GMT on Dec. 1 on the sidelines of the G20 in Argentina, a Kremlin document seen by Reuters on Thursday showed. A Kremlin aide said on Wednesday that the two leaders would look for ways to break out of a deadlock in relations when they ...

Press TV - Defense Secretary JamesMattis says the United Stateswill have no cooperation with the Russian military in Syria at least for now. His remarks come after Moscow last week proposed plans to Washington to cooperate on the safe return of refugees to Syria following a meeting between President Donald Trump and his Russian counterpart Vladimir ...

Press TV - US Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley, a staunch critic of the Kremlin, has said Washington will never trust Russia or its President Vladimir Putin, amid an uproar over President Donald Trump's controversial meeting with his Russian counterpart. "We don't trust Russia, we don't trust Putin, we never will," Haley told CBN News ...

Press TV - President Donald Trump says he could have a very good relationship with Russian leader Vladimir Putin, even as the United States and many European nations have expelled more than 150 Russian diplomats. Getting along with Russia is a good thing, Trump said Tuesday during a joint press conference with leaders of three Baltic countries ...

IFP - Turkish ambassador to Tehran says Tehran and Ankara, two of the three guarantor states of Astana Process, were upset by not being involved in a Moscow-Washington deal on de-escalation zones in Syria. In a recent exclusive interview with the Etemad daily newspaper, Reza Hakan Takin, the ambassador of Turkey to Iran, discussed a ...

Al-Monitor | Hamidreza Azizi: As various international peace initiatives have sought a political solution to the Syrian crisis, the most recent tangible breakthrough came from someplace new. On July 9, the long-awaited meeting between the presidents ofRussia and the United Statestook place on the sidelines of the G-20 summit in Hamburg, Germany, wherethe ...

Press TV - Israel has refused to abide by a ceasefire brokered by the United States and Russia which went into force in southwestern Syria on Sunday, saying it would act to protect its interests. Israel reserves its complete freedom of action, regardless of any understandings or developments, minister of military affairs Avigdor Liberman said ...

Press TV - Russian President Vladimir Putin and his American counterpart Donald Trump have held their first meeting on the sidelines of the G20 summit inGermany, and reportedly exchanged viewpoints on a host of international problems and bilateral issues. Sitting next to Putin on the sidelines of the economic summit in the northern German city ...

ABC- US President-elect Donald Trump says "only 'stupid' people or fools" would dismiss closer ties with Russia, a day after intelligence leaders declared Moscow meddled in the US election with the aim of helping him get elected. Mr Trump has repeatedly questioned the assessment by American intelligence agencies that the Kremlin interfered in the ...

Policymakers in Moscow and Washington are searching for ways to bring cooperation between the two countries to a whole new level with regard to fighting terrorism in Syria, but challenges, particularly the fate of President Bashar al-Assad, complicate these efforts, former US envoy to Syria Richard Murphy told Radio Sputnik. "The leak suggests ...

Russia says it has reached an agreement with the US to improve coordination between their military operationsin Syria where they are backing opposing sides. Russian Defense Ministry spokesmanIgor Konashenkov also rejected on Sunday the Pentagon's accusations that it had deliberately targeted US-backed militantsin Syria. He saidRussia is pushing ...

It is easy for Moscow to work with Assad and with Washington, Russian president Vladimir Putin said while speaking about the Syria crisis settlement. "Speaking about Syrian crisis I can say that it is easy for us to work with president Assad and with the US. I've spoken about it earlier with president Obama and with our friends from Saudi Arabia,...

Russian Foreign Minister gave an interview to Rossiya-1 TV channel while on a visit to Kamchatka in the Far East. Moscow is ready to coordinate its activities in Syria with the United States, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said Saturday. We are ready for such a profound coordination, Lavrov said in an interview with Sergey Brilev on Vesti ...

VIENNA (AP) -- Russia-U.S. relations are at a post-Cold War low just about everywhere, except at the Iran nuclear talks. Despite a chill over the Ukraine crisis that has spread to almost every element of their relationship, Moscow and Washington continue to find common cause on one of the most pressing issues on the global agenda - a deal to prevent ...

[caption id="attachment_106727" align="alignright" width="182"] White House Press Secretary Josh Earnest[/caption] White House spokesperson said that Anti-Russian sanctions to have the same effect on Russian economy as the sanction regime against Iran. WASHINGTON, December 16 (Sputnik) Anti-Russian sanctions will have the same effect onRussian ...

American media villainize Putin and almost everything about Russia covered by US media is distorted, Stephen Cohen, a world-known American scholar of Russian studies and author of the article Distorting Russia published in The Nation claims. Also, "When Putin makes an offer that is in the best national security interest of the US, the first impulse ...

MOSCOW, December 31 (RIA Novosti) Russian President Vladimir Putin sent Christmas and New Year congratulations to US President Barack Obama on Tuesday, confirming Russias readiness to engage in dialogue to enhance bilateral cooperation with the United States. The events of the past year clearly demonstrated how, acting in the spirit of partnership ...

The missile defense issue could be resolved if Russia and US continue to build relations based on confidence, Anoush Ehteshami, Professor of International Relations, told RT. Another expert, Robert Naiman, Policy Director at Just Foreign Policy, told RT that The threat from Iran was used as a justification for the missile defense system in Eastern ...

US President Barack Obama says the United States is pausing to reassess relations with Russia, amid what he called backward thinking by Russian President Vladimir Putin and Moscows adoption of a more anti-US attitude. Obama said there are a number of other issues of concern such as emerging differences around Syria and around human rights, besides ...