Just as their forces are stalemated on the battlefield, Russian President Vladimir Putin and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky are in a rhetorical standoff over preconditions for peace talks. Putin offered to begin talks Thursday in Istanbul under the auspices of Turkey with no preconditions,

U.S. President Donald Trump's senior envoys Steve Witkoff and Keith Kellogg will travel to Istanbul for potential talks on Thursday on how to end Russia's war in Ukraine, three sources familiar with the plans said on Tuesday.

President Donald Trump, who pushed Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy to accept Russian President Vladimir Putin’s proposal, took to Truth Socialto express his frustration of the talks

Rumeysa Ozturk has been detained for over six weeks after co-writing an op-ed criticising her school's response to the Israel-Gaza war A US federal judge ordered the Trump administration on Friday to immediately release a Tufts University student from Turkey who has been held for over six weeks in a Louisiana immigration detention facility after

U.S. President Donald Trump will arrive in Saudi Arabia on Tuesday morning to kick off a four-day swing through the Gulf region, a trip that will focus more on economic deals than on the security crises besetting the region,