US President Donald Trump said Friday he had canceled a planned trip to North Korea by US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, saying progress toward the US goal of a denuclearization of the Korean peninsula was too slow. “I have asked Secretary of State Mike Pompeo not to go to ...
Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov says Russia respects Iran’s presence in Syria which he described as lawful amid reports that the US was pressuring Moscow on Tehran’s role in the Arab country. Ryabkov said Iran has been in Syria at the official request of the Syrian government to help the ...