Russian President Vladimir Putin has said that Moscow is willing to consider cooperating with the U.S. in mining rare earth minerals both in Russia and parts of Russian-occupied Ukraine.

Ahmed al-Shara’s unlikely path from membership in Al Qaeda to head of state has raised questions about how he intends to govern Syria. Ahmed al-Shara’s unlikely path from membership in Al ...

In a one-hour question and answer session on social media Thursday, Macron said that he’ll tell Trump: “’You can’t be weak in the face of President Putin. It’s not you, it’s not your ...

Photo by MIKHAIL METZEL/POOL/AFP via Getty Images In February 2022, following a massive buildup on Ukraine’s borders, Putin’s army launched a full-scale invasion of Ukraine. There is no ...

On one hand, Russian officials are convinced that Vladimir Putin has become the ultimate role model for these American titans. After all, wasn’t it Putin who popularized the gangster swagger ...

As it happened – Russian President Vladimir Putin said Wednesday that his country needed to build trust with the US in order to resolve the Ukraine conflict. Putin also said that he rated talks ...

Global politics can be an ugly business, but the looming rehabilitation of Vladimir Putin is especially hard to take. Mr. Trump said last week after a phone call with Mr. Putin that he’s ...

The Kremlin announced on Tuesday that Russian President Vladimir Putin is ready to talk with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky "if necessary." Russian President Vladimir Putin attends a ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The Christian Science Church, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The Church publishes the ...

The war often seems a distraction from what Trump really wants – the chance to sit down with Putin, one of the global strongmen he admires. Still, there’s a chance that Trump’s urgency and ...

One of the world’s longest conflicts may be drawing to a close ...

President Trump said Russian President Vladimir Putin “wants to stop fighting” and shot down a suggestion that Putin’s ambitions could extend beyond Ukraine’s borders. “I think he wants ...