De-escalation Agreement

Russia's promise to scale down military operations around Kyiv and northern Ukraine does not represent a ceasefire and talks on a formal agreement with Kyiv have a long way to go, Moscow's lead negotiator in peace talks said on Tuesday.

The agreement reached during last year's exchanges between Indian Foreign Minister S Jaishankar and his Chinese counterpart Wang Yi in Moscow should continue to guide the work of the two sides in de-escalation and restoration of peace along the LAC, a meeting of the two countries' teams on border affairs agreed today. The two sides also agreed to c...

Chinese soldiers took "pre-meditated and planned action" that was directly responsible for Monday's clash at Ladakh's Galwan Valley, in which 20 Indian soldiers died, Foreign Minister S Jaishankar told his China counterpart Wang Yi in a phone conversation today, the first since the massive escalation in border hostilities. The Foreign Minister unde...

President Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin on Friday discussed brokering "commitments of noninterference" in the U.S. political system during a lengthy face-to-face meeting in Germany, the first in-person encounter between the two leaders about Russia's alleged role in the 2016 election.

A de-escalation agreement in Syria takes effect at midnight but Russia's air force will continue strikes against Islamic State elsewhere in the country, Russian news agencies cited the Defence Ministry as saying on Friday.

The Colombian government reached a major De-escalation agreement on Sunday with leftist FARC guerrillas, agreeing for the first time to reduce anti-rebel operations in the decades-long armed conflict, diplomats in Havana said.

Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko confirmed Friday a "gradual de-escalation" in fighting between government forces and pro-Russian separatists, a month after a ceasefire agreement came into effect.

Russia's promise to scale down military operations around Kyiv and northern Ukraine does not represent a ceasefire and talks on a formal agreement with Kyiv have a long way to go, Moscow's lead negotiator in peace talks said on Tuesday.

The agreement reached during last year's exchanges between Indian Foreign Minister S Jaishankar and his Chinese counterpart Wang Yi in Moscow should continue to guide the work of the two sides in de-escalation and restoration of peace along the LAC, a meeting of the two countries' teams on border affairs agreed today. The two sides also agreed to c...

Chinese soldiers took "pre-meditated and planned action" that was directly responsible for Monday's clash at Ladakh's Galwan Valley, in which 20 Indian soldiers died, Foreign Minister S Jaishankar told his China counterpart Wang Yi in a phone conversation today, the first since the massive escalation in border hostilities. The Foreign Minister unde...

President Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin on Friday discussed brokering "commitments of noninterference" in the U.S. political system during a lengthy face-to-face meeting in Germany, the first in-person encounter between the two leaders about Russia's alleged role in the 2016 election.

A de-escalation agreement in Syria takes effect at midnight but Russia's air force will continue strikes against Islamic State elsewhere in the country, Russian news agencies cited the Defence Ministry as saying on Friday.

The Colombian government reached a major De-escalation agreement on Sunday with leftist FARC guerrillas, agreeing for the first time to reduce anti-rebel operations in the decades-long armed conflict, diplomats in Havana said.

Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko confirmed Friday a "gradual de-escalation" in fighting between government forces and pro-Russian separatists, a month after a ceasefire agreement came into effect.