Russia is eyeing talks with the Trump administration about re-establishing a significant diplomatic presence in the US as an opening to rebuild its spy network in the West, current and former US officials say.

There is no doubt that the transformative reforms witnessed in Saudi Arabia under the leadership of Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Salman and Crown Prince and Prime Minister Mohammed bin Salman are the result of an unprecedented and visionary approach to domestic and foreign policy.

U.S. and Russian officials met on Tuesday in Riyadh for their first talks on ending the war in Ukraine, as Kyiv and its European allies watched anxiously from the sidelines and Moscow raised a new demand that NATO formally disavow a membership promise it made to Ukraine in 2008.

Officials feasted on lamb and knafeh cheesecake with US representatives while Ukraine was frozen out of negotiations

Russian and U.S. diplomats are holding talks in Istanbul to discuss ways to normalize the operation of their respective embassies.

Tarzi says that, by hosting the talks between Washington and Moscow, Riyadh will preserve all other aspects of its relationship with the United States “and add a peace-building opportunity under ...

RIYADH, Saudi Arabia — President Donald Trump’s top foreign ... represents a dramatic turnaround after a period of frigid U.S.-Russian relations following Moscow’s military assault, which prompted President Joe Biden to spearhead a Western coalition ...

Russia's sovereign wealth fund chief Kirill Dmitriev will meet a U.S. delegation in Saudi Arabia on Tuesday to focus on strengthening ties and increased economic cooperation, a source in Riyadh told Reuters.

Washington-Moscow negotiations that started yesterday in Saudi Arabia are odd, to say the least. These offline discussions in Riyadh are high-level – foreign ministers and presidential advisers of US and Russia are involved.