Three heavyweight envoys in Tehran try to keep the Iran war from flaring up again
A Saudi prince, a Pakistani field marshal and Turkey’s spy chief walked into Tehran on Monday, and for once the line is not the start of a joke. Khalid bin…
Eight foreign ministers meet in Istanbul and tell Washington: no new strikes on Iran
A new diplomatic grouping made its debut on the shores of the Bosphorus on Friday. Four European capitals, Berlin, Paris, London and Rome, sent their top diplomats to a table…
A pardon and a date: Putin frees Stephen Hubbard and pencils in Ukraine talks for November
Steve Witkoff left St Petersburg on Wednesday with two things to show his boss: an American passenger on his plane and a Kremlin promise to come back to the negotiating…
Seoul pulls half its diplomats out of Kyiv as the row over two North Korean prisoners escalates
A quarrel between two governments that are usually on friendly terms has reached a new low. South Korea announced on Tuesday that roughly half of the people working at its…