Russia media say ousted Syrian leader Bashar Assad has fled to Moscow and received asylum from his longtime ally.

Russia’s top diplomat says in an interview with former Fox News host Tucker Carlson that Moscow doesn’t want a war with the United States but will use “all means” to defend its interests.

Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov has clashed indirectly with U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken at an annual security meeting, accusing the West of risking escalation to the war over Ukraine but walking out before Blinken and other speakers could respond.

Russia’s top diplomat is hosting his North Korean counterpart for talks amid reports that Pyongyang has sent thousands of troops to Russia to support its military in the war in Ukraine.

North Korea’s top diplomat is set to hold talks in Moscow following reports that Pyongyang has sent thousands of troops to support Russia’s action in Ukraine.

Russia’s top diplomat warned against “trying to fight to victory with a nuclear power.”.

Whether it’s Gaza, Ukraine, Syria or a new world order, it’s been Russia versus the United States and the West during Moscow’s presidency of the U.N. Security Council this month.

Southeast Asian top diplomats have condemned violence in Myanmar’s ongoing civil war and urged for “practical” means to defuse rising tensions in the South China Sea during the last of the three-day regional talks with allies including the U.S., Russia and China.

U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken will make the case for the Biden administration’s expanded commitment to Asia and the Indo-Pacific as he visits Laos, Vietnam, Japan, the Philippines, Singapore and Mongolia this week and next.

Top diplomats from Southeast Asia have met with China’s foreign minister for talks that come as friction escalates over Beijing's growing effort to press its sweeping maritime claims.

Russia’s foreign minister blamed “the Americans” for publicly bringing up a possible prisoner exchange involving imprisoned Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich, which he said “isn’t helping.”.

The U.S. Ambassador told Russia’s foreign minister that President Vladimir Putin should release detained Americans, singling out journalist Evan Gershkovich and ex-Marine Paul Whelan.

Russia’s foreign minister has accused the United States of holding the entire West “at gunpoint” and impeding international cooperation at a U.N. event.

President Vladimir Putin is in North Korea for a summit with its leader, Kim Jong Un, as the two nations deepen their cooperation.

In a story published April 12, 2024, about Chinese sales to Russia of technology that has been used in its war against Ukraine, The Associated Press, citing information from two senior administration officials, misidentified the name of one of the companies involved in the sales as Chinese firm iRay Technology.

Chinese leader Xi Jinping met with Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov in a sign of mutual support amid Moscow's invasion of Ukraine and shared opposition to Western democracies led by the U.S. No details of the meeting were immediately released, although Lavrov held a news conference earlier Tuesday with his Chinese counterpart Wang Yi at which they reaffirmed solidarity in international affairs.

Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov is visiting Beijing to display the strength of ties with close diplomatic partner China amid Moscow's grinding war against Ukraine.

Russia’s Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov has warned that prospective negotiations to end the fighting in Ukraine could be successful only if they take Moscow’s interests in the account.

South Korea’s military said North Korea has fired multiple cruise missiles into waters off its western coast, extending a provocative series of weapons tests in the face of deepening tensions with the United States, South Korea and Japan.

Russia’s top diplomat is accusing the United States, South Korea and Japan of preparing for war with North Korea.

Russia’s foreign minister has clashed with the United States and Ukraine’s supporters at a U.N. meeting where Moscow ruled out any peace plan backed by Kyiv and the West, and China warned that further global chaos could impact the slowing global economy.

North Korea said Sunday that Russian President Vladimir Putin expressed his willingness to visit the North at an unspecified “early date” as the countries continue to align in the face of their separate, intensifying confrontations with the United States.

A Russian city near the Ukrainian border canceled its traditional Orthodox Epiphany festivities on Friday due to the threat of attacks as Kyiv’s forces pursue a new strategy with the war approaching its two-year milestone.

Russia’s top diplomat has dismissed a U.S. proposal to resume dialogue on nuclear arms control.

Russian President Vladimir Putin and Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov have hosted North Korea’s foreign minister for talks on expanding ties between the countries.

Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov has delivered a blunt message to Western leaders and declared at an international security conference that his government was not prepared to “review its goals” in Ukraine.

Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov has faced Western critics while attending international security talks in Northern Macedonia.

Top diplomats from more than 50 countries have arrived in North Macedonia for a meeting of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe.

The foreign ministers of the three Baltic states and of Ukraine say they will boycott a meeting by the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe being held this week in North Macedonia.

Russia’s Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov says he plans to travel to NATO member North Macedonia later this week to attend a conference of a top trans-Atlantic security and rights group, a trip that would mark his first visit to a NATO country since Moscow sent troops to Ukraine.

South Korea, the U.S. and Japan have strongly condemned what they call North Korea’s supply of munitions and military equipment to Russia.

Russia’s foreign minister has proposed regular security talks with North Korea and China to deal with what he described as increasing U.S.-led regional military threats.

Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov has thanked North Korea for its support for Russia’s war on Ukraine as he arrived in Pyongyang.

Turkish warplanes have carried out airstrikes on sites believed to be used by U.S.-backed Kurdish fighters in northern Syria.

Turkish warplanes have launched a new round of airstrikes against Kurdish militant targets in Iraq.

It’s Day 6 of the U.N. General Assembly high-level meeting that brings world leaders together at U.N. headquarters in New York.

Russia’s top diplomat is lashing out at the U.S. and the West as self-interested defenders of a fading international power structure.

It’s Day 5 of the U.N. General Assembly high-level meeting that brings world leaders together at U.N. headquarters in New York.

It’s Day 3 of the U.N. General Assembly high-level meeting that brings world leaders together at U.N. headquarters in New York.

It was a moment the diplomatic world was watching for — but didn’t get.

Ukraine’s president is accusing Russia of undermining all norms of war and the United Nations Charter.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy says Russia is “weaponizing” everything from food and energy to abducted children in its war against Ukraine.

Secretary of State Antony Blinken has met with China's Vice President Han Zheng on the sidelines of the U.N. General Assembly as the Biden administration and Beijing step up high-level contacts ahead of what could be a leader-level summit this fall.

China’s top diplomat is in Russia for security talks after two days of meetings with U.S. President Joe Biden’s national security adviser over the weekend in Malta.

Indonesia will welcome the leaders of fellow Asian countries with a captivating jungle scene of a two-story waterfall, chirping birds, wild orchids and even an orangutan in a tree.

Southeast Asian leaders led by Indonesian host President Joko Widodo are gathering in their final summit this year.

Russia and China will look to gain more political and economic ground in the developing world at a summit in South Africa this week.

Across the developing world, many countries are fed up with America’s dominance of the global financial system — and especially the power of the dollar.

On the battlefields of Ukraine, the fog of war plagues soldiers.

U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken has met China’s top diplomat to discuss thorny issues as part of efforts to nurture talks on the sidelines of regional diplomatic meetings in Indonesia.

The U.S. has imposed sanctions on the pro-Russian head of Serbian intelligence.

Myanmar’s prolonged civil strife, tensions in the disputed South China Sea and concern over arms buildups in the region are expected to dominate the agenda when Southeast Asia’s top diplomats gather for talks this week in Indonesia.

The Russian mercenary group that briefly rebelled against President Vladimir Putin’s authority has for years been a ruthless force-for-hire across Africa, protecting rulers at the expense of the masses.

On the surface, the turmoil in Russia would seem like something for the U.S. to celebrate: a powerful mercenary group engaging in a short-lived clash with Russia’s military at the very moment that Ukraine is trying to gain momentum in a critical counteroffensive.

Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov has met with top diplomats from the BRICS bloc of developing economies for discussions that included the group’s possible expansion to include the major oil-producing nations of Saudi Arabia, Iran and the United Arab Emirates.

Russia has offered military support to Somalia’s army in the war against terrorism.

In response to a new round of U.S. sanctions, Russia has announced that has banned 500 Americans from entering the country, including former President Barack Obama and comedian Stephen Colbert.

Europe's pre-eminent human rights organization is holding a two-day summit in Reykjavik starting Tuesday, which will center on the war in Ukraine, one of its member states.

India’s foreign minister has held talks with counterparts from China and Russia ahead of a meeting of a Central Asian security forum.

Russia’s Foreign Ministry has denied a U.

The U_S_ has brought the sister of an American imprisoned in Russia to the U_N_ Security Council for a session being chaired by the Russian foreign minister, urging him to “look into her eyes and see her suffering.”.

Russia says that the United States has denied visas to journalists who wanted to cover Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov’s trip to New York.

Russia’s Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov traveled to the Brazilian capital Monday and expressed gratitude for Brazil’s push for an end to hosilities in Ukraine — even as that same effort has irked both Kyiv and the West, and by afternoon had prompted an unusually sharp rebuke from the White House.

The Russian presidency of the U.N. Security Council has been the most contentious in the memory of longtime U.N. diplomats.

Russia's top diplomat says Moscow may pull out of a wartime deal that allows the export of Ukrainian grain to global markets if the West fails to remove obstacles to Russian agricultural exports.

U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken says he has “no doubt” that Russia has wrongfully detained an American reporter for The Wall Street Journal who was arrested last week on spying allegations.

Russia’s U.N. ambassador is dismissing U.S. and European Union descriptions of its presidency of the Security Council this month as an April Fool’s joke.

The State Department says Secretary of State Antony Blinken urged his Russian counterpart, in a rare phone call between the diplomats since the Ukraine war, to immediately release a Wall Street Journal reporter who was detained last week as well as another imprisoned American, Paul Whelan.

The U.S. has imposed sanctions on seven Belarusian elections officials, two state-owned automotive manufacturers and President Alexander Lukashenko’s aircraft.

U.S. officials say the Biden administration will announce a new package of military aid for Ukraine Friday, including — for the first time — eight armored vehicles that can launch bridges and allow troops to cross rivers or other gaps.

U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov spoke briefly in New Delhi at a meeting of top diplomats from the Group of 20 nations.

Top diplomats from the Group of 20 industrialized and developing nations have ended a contentious meeting in New Delhi with no consensus on the Ukraine war, as discussions of the war and China’s widening global influence dominated much of the talks.

Fractured East-West relations over Russia’s war in Ukraine and increasing concerns about China’s global aspirations are set to dominate what is expected to be a highly contentious meeting of foreign ministers from the world’s largest industrialized and developing nations this week in India.

Russia and China are showcasing their deepening ties in Moscow meetings others are watching for signs that Beijing might offer the Kremlin stronger support for its war in Ukraine.

Russia has angrily rejected the Moldovan president’s claim about an alleged plot by Moscow to overthrow her government, accusing Moldova’s authorities of trying to distract public attention from the country's own domestic problems.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy says he has discovered plans by Russian secret services to destroy Moldova.

Russia's foreign minister has met with Sudan’s military rulers as the two troubled nations seek to deepen economic and political ties.

Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov has pledged military support to Mali and other aid during his first visit to the West African nation.

Germany has apologized for using a leopard emoji in a jibe at Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov on Twitter that ended up offending some Africans.

Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov says Moscow was willing to negotiate with Ukraine in the early months of the war but the United States and other Western nations advised Kyiv against it.

Russia and China will conduct naval drills off the coast of South Africa next month in another indication of their strengthening relationships with Africa’s most developed country amid the war in Ukraine and global financial uncertainty.

Russia's top diplomat says his country will achieve its objectives in Ukraine despite a “hybrid war” waged by the West against Moscow.

Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov has warned that Ukraine must meet Moscow’s demand for “demilitarization” and the removal of the military threat to Russia.

Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi has defended what he says is his country’s position of impartiality on the war in Ukraine and signaled that China would deepen ties with Russia in the coming year.

A security organization born in the Cold War to maintain peace in Europe has ended a high-level meeting without a final resolution.

Serbia's government announces that it has named a staunchly pro-Russian politician as the Balkan state’s new spy chief.

Europe’s largest security organization has opened a meeting in Poland strongly denouncing Russia’s war against Ukraine.

Russia’s foreign minister has accused the West of becoming directly involved in the conflict in Ukraine by supplying it with weapons and training its soldiers.

A senior Russian diplomat says Moscow has postponed a round of nuclear arms control talks with the United States set for this week because of stark differences in approach and tensions over Ukraine.

President Joe Biden took an around-the-world victory lap after this month's midterm election, where Democrats showed surprising strength in holding back Republicans.

Members of the Group of 20 leading economies have firmly condemned the war in Ukraine and warned that the conflict is worsening the global economy.

The European Council president urged global powers Tuesday to intensify pressure on Russia over its war against Ukraine, including Moscow’s biggest supporter, China.

Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen said Tuesday he has COVID-19 and is leaving the Group of 20 meetings in Bali, just days after hosting President Joe Biden and other world leaders for a summit in his country’s capital.

Leaders of the world's largest economies appear ready to send a strong message to Russia condemning its invasion of Ukraine.

Indonesian authorities say Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov visited and later left a Bali hospital ahead of the Group of 20 summit being held on the island.

Residents of Kherson are celebrating for a third straight day the end of Russia’s eight-month occupation of the southern Ukrainian city.

Indonesia’s president is vowing not to let Southeast Asia become the front lines of a new Cold War amid increasing tensions between the United States and China.

President Joe Biden says “it's more urgent than ever” to increase commitments to fighting global warming.

Ukraine has signed a peace accord with Southeast Asian nations.

Russian President Vladimir Putin will not attend the Group of 20 summit in Indonesia next week, avoiding a possible confrontation with the United States and its allies over his war in Ukraine.