MOSCOW: Taliban are ready to talk with Afghanistan's government only after agreeing with the United States on a schedule for the withdrawal of foreign troops from the country, Russian Presidential Envoy for Afghanistan Zamir Kabulov said. "They said that they would be ready to talk with the Afghan ...

MOSCOW – Taliban representatives told Russia that they had held scores of clandestine meetings with the US, Russian presidential envoy to Afghanistan said. Taliban is ready for holding talks with Afghan government after reaching an agreement on US withdrawal from this country, Zamir Kabulov ...

MOSCOW: Russia is reacting calmly to the recent large-scale military drills conducted by the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) and wishes to continue dialogue on this matter, Russian President Vladimir Putin has said. "To be fair, we are trying not to conduct any large-scale exercises close ...

*MOSCOW - The Afghan Taliban said that they are ready for the talks but only with Washington.* This came after delegations of the Taliban, Afghan government, US and Pakistan, among other countries, met in Moscow on Friday for the second round of talks on Afghanistan. Sher Mohammad Abbas ...

Moscow: Afghanistan rivals failed to reach a breakthrough on holding direct peace negotiations after international talks in Moscow on Friday, the latest international push to end the conflict. Russia, which said it invited representatives from the United States as well as India, Iran, China and ...

MOSCOW - Moscow on Friday hosted international talks on Afghanistan aimed at kickstarting direct negotiations between Kabul and the Taliban militant group, both of whom sent delegations. Russia hopes "through joint efforts to open a new page in the history of Afghanistan," Russian Foreign ...

MOSCOW: Moscow considers any potential new sanctions related to chemical weapons imposed by the U.S. on Russia to be illegal and will respond accordingly once they are announced, Russian officials have said. The U.S. State Department said that it might impose another round of sanctions on Russia ...

Moscow: US President Donald Trump said he had no plans to meet Russia's Vladimir Putin in Paris at the weekend, despite an earlier announcement from Moscow that the pair would talk there. The two leaders will be in France on November 11 for events to mark the centenary of the end of World War 1, ...

*MOSCOW - Moscow is intensifying efforts to wean its economy off the dollar as Washington considers tough new sanctions that could deny Russia access to foreign debt markets and cut its banks from the greenback.* President Vladimir Putin has repeatedly slammed the US unit’s dominance on the ...

MOSCOW - Russia says any new chemical weapons-related sanctions imposed by Washinton against Moscow will be illegal. This was stated by Russian Presidential Spokesman Dmitry Peskov while talking to reporters in Moscow on Wednesday. Earlier, the US State Department announced it would impose ...