With his administration on the defensive over investigations into alleged Russian meddling in last year's election, U.S. President Donald Trump is no longer tweeting praise for his Kremlin counterpart. Less than five weeks after he took office, the chances of a spring thaw in relations...

Russia is hosting the head of Libya's U.N.-backed government, part of efforts to expand its clout in the fractured country. Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov met Thursday with Faez Sarraj, the prime minister of the unity government in Tripoli. Lavrov said that Russia, a "good and old...

Russia Thursday said stumbling U.N.-led Syrian peace talks in Geneva have sparked doubts that the opposition is capable of agreeing a deal with the regime in Damascus. "The results of the first days of the intra-Syrian dialogues, as before, raise questions over the ability of the Syrian...

 A suspected U.S. drone strike killed two men Thursday in a Pakistani village near the Afghanistan border, a local government official and a village elder said. The missile struck two men riding a motorcycle in Pakistan's northern Kurram Agency, part of the country's lawless tribal...