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Pentagon chief talks to Russian counterpart for first time since Ukraine war began
This is the first conversation between the two defense chiefs since Feb. 18, a week before the war started.
By Kyle Rempfer
Russian lawmakers vote to follow US out of overflight treaty
Moscow has signaled its readiness to reverse the withdrawal procedure and stay in the treaty if the United States returns to the agreement.
US-Russia showdown looms as top diplomats meet in Iceland
U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Russia’s longtime Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov plan to talk Wednesday on the sidelines of an Arctic Council meeting in Reykjavik.
Russia’s northernmost base projects its power across Arctic
The Russian base was built using new construction technologies as part of Kremlin efforts to bolster the military amid spiraling tensions with the West following Russia's 2014 annexation of Ukraine's Crimean Peninsula.
Russia hints it may return to Open Skies Treaty if US does
Moscow announced last month that it would leave the Open Skies Treaty following the U.S. departure from the pact last year.
US sees ‘important progress’ in Helsinki nuclear arms talks
Monday’s talks are thought to have focused on producing a new agreement to replace, or to extend, the New START treaty that expires in February.
Pompeo says threats to US in Afghanistan raised with Russian officials
Pompeo’s testimony came a day after President Donald Trump told an interviewer he had not raised the bounty allegations in numerous phone calls with Russian President Vladimir Putin.
Key House Democrats want to lock in New START weapons limits
The chairmen of the House foreign affairs and intelligence committees are pushing a measure meant to extend the last remaining U.S.-Russia arms control agreement amid fears President Donald Trump will let it lapse.
By Joe Gould
Russia’s foreign minister mocks intel on bounties to Taliban for killing American troops
Russia’s top diplomat on Friday dismissed U.S. intelligence information alleging that Moscow offered bounties to the Taliban for killing American soldiers as a product of election year politics in Washington.
Top US and Russian diplomats discussed ways to end Syria war
Top U.S. and Russian diplomats discussed step-by-step implementation of a 2012 roadmap to U.N.-supervised elections in Syria that could allow a Syrian government "to move back into the international community," the U.S. envoy for the war-torn country said Wednesday.
By Edith M. Lederer, The Associated Press