From language lessons to a defence partnership: why the US and Azerbaijan are drawing closer

The journey by Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner revived diplomacy but did not resolve its central contradiction: Moscow still expects to achieve its objectives through force, while Ukraine demands guarantees capable of preventing another war When...

Steve Witkoff, the US president’s special envoy, and Jared Kushner, Trump’s son-in-law, met Putin on September 5. The Russian side was also represented by presidential aide Yuri Ushakov and Kirill Dmitriev, head of the Russian Direct Investment Fund, who has become one of the principal unofficial intermediaries between Moscow and Washington.

US President Donald Trump says his representatives, Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner, are travelling to Moscow and Kyiv with a new proposal aimed at ending the war in Ukraine. The details of the American initiative have not yet been disclosed. It is...

President Donald Trump personally ordered CIA Director John Ratcliffe to travel to Moscow on a confidential mission whose contents were kept secret even from some senior White House officials. According to The Wall Street Journal’s reporting, the...