Secretary of State Marco Rubio is in Saudi Arabia to address the two big international crises of the moment, the war in Gaza and the war in Ukraine.

The meeting is meant to pave the way for a meeting between U.S. President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin.

Europe's participation in Ukraine peace talks will be needed eventually but Moscow first wants to build trust with Washington, President Vladimir Putin said on Monday, while suggesting that a deal to end the conflict may still be far off.

Ukraine has considerable leverage in upcoming negotiations with Russia—as long as the United States stands by Kyiv and adopts a negotiating strategy that creates real dilemmas for Moscow. U.S. support for Ukraine has been cast into doubt in recent weeks after a flurry of comments by Trump administration officials offering unilateral concessions to Moscow and criticizing Ukraine.

Russian and U.S. diplomats will meet in Istanbul on Thursday for talks aimed at restoring their respective diplomatic missions, seen as a step towards ending the war in Ukraine, both sides said on Wednesday.

But with no seat at the table in Riyadh, Ukraine was left to watch from afar as the US and Russia appeared to set out their initial positions. The announcement that Washington and Moscow would ...

The meeting marked the first high-level discussions between the two countries since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in 2022. The setting for these talks was Diriyah Palace in Riyadh, where both nations discussed their strained relationship and explored ways to ease tensions.

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U.S. President Donald Trump said a new phase of ceasefire negotiations between American and Russian delegations aimed to stop Russia's war against Ukraine would take place in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, on Feb.

Last week, high-level talks between Russia and the United States took place in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. The talks focused on strategies to end the ongoing war in Ukraine and restore severely strained dip

The US and Russia met on Tuesday for the first time in Saudi Arabia to begin negotiations on the future of Ukraine. The two sides agreed to set up teams that will hammer out an agreement. Ukrainian and European leaders are not happy about being left out.

The hastily arranged gathering in Riyadh brings together the president’s efforts to forge deals to halt two major global conflicts in short order: the war in Ukraine and that in the Gaza Strip ...