Upcoming peace talks between the United States and the Taliban will focus on working out a timeline for the withdrawal of U.S.-led troops from Afghanistan and on a Taliban guarantee militants won’t plot attacks from Afghan soil, sources said on Monday. A seventh round of talks between the...

The new economic sanctions that the United States is preparing to impose on Iran will have no "impact," a spokesman for the Islamic republic's foreign ministry said Monday. "We really do not know what [the new sanctions] are and what they want to target anymore, and also do not consider...

U.S. President Donald Trump is ready to talk to Iran about a deal that would lift American sanctions but Tehran would need to curtain its nuclear and missile program, as well as its support for proxies, a senior U.S. official said Monday. U.S. Special Representative on Iran Brian Hook told...

Washington's deployment of land-based missile systems near Russia's borders could lead to a standoff comparable to the Cuban missile crisis, Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov was quoted as saying Monday. Russia has been fiercely critical of U.S. plans to deploy missile systems...