Kyiv accused the Kremlin of introducing new “unacceptable demands” to withdraw Ukrainian forces from huge swaths of territory ...

Russia and Ukraine agreed on a large-scale prisoner exchange, said they would trade ideas on a possible ceasefire and discussed a potential meeting between Volodymyr Zelensky and Vladimir Putin in ...

President Donald Trump says he may call Russian President Vladimir Putin soon, after Putin skipped peace talks between Russia ...

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy spoke with President Donald Trump and chief Western allies from France, Germany, the U.K. and Poland after peace talks with Russia on Friday failed to secure ...

As of May 13, 2025, Russian forces occupied 112,757 square kilometers (43,536 square miles), which constituted 18.7% of the Ukrainian territory and which is roughly equivalent to the state of Virginia ...

Iran, for its part, has said it will agree to something close to the JCPOA, under which Iran agreed to strict nuclear curbs that expired over time in exchange for sanctions relief.

Russia’s president slow rolled negotiators and failed to attend talks. But his gamble met little US resistance ...

Welcome back to World Brief, where we’re looking at the outcome of direct Russia-Ukraine peace talks, Israeli airstrikes ...

ISTANBUL: Delegations from Moscow and Kyiv are in Istanbul on Friday (May 16), where they plan to hold their first direct ...

Before they adjourned, Kyiv and Moscow agreed to exchange 1,000 prisoners of war each, according to the heads of both delegations, in what would be their biggest such swap since the war began. Both ...

Trump received the full royal treatment, and here in the Gulf it was clear he was among friends. His swing through the ...