
South Korean President Moon Jae-in urged the United States to “lower the threshold for talks” with the North on Monday as his aides held rare talks with a Pyongyang general on ways to defuse tensions. Moon has sought to use the Pyeongchang Winter Olympics that ended on Sunday to open ...

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov has warned against the threat of the Takfiri Jabhat Fateh al-Sham militant group, formerly known as al-Nusra Front, as the main source of violence in Syria’s Eastern Ghouta region, censuring the US for not taking any serious action against the terror group. “Jabhat al-Nusra, which ...