Sergey Lavrov

Russian Ambassador to the United Nations Vasily Nebenzya talks before a vote during a Security Council meeting, Tuesday, April 10, 2018, at United Nations headquarters. (AP Photo/Julie Jacobson)

June 2, 2018, 1:47 am

Russia’s UN envoy ‘believes’ deal reached with Israel on Iranian border pullout

'As far as I understand, the parties are satisfied,' Vasily Nebenzya tells press about reported agreement for Tehran's troops to withdraw from southern Syria

By TOI staff

Defense Minister Avigdor Liberman meets with Russian Minister of Defense Sergei Shoigu, in Moscow, Russia on May 31, 2018. (Ariel Hermoni/Defense Ministry)

June 1, 2018, 4:59 pm

Russia OKs Israeli strikes on Iranian targets deep inside Syria — report

Arabic daily says deal between Moscow and Jerusalem includes removal of Tehran-backed forces from border area, protection for Syrian army

By TOI staff and Alexander Fulbright

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov (L) meets with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un in Pyongyang on May 31, 2018. (AFP / TASS/POOL / Valery SHARIFULIN)

June 1, 2018, 4:43 am

North Korea’s Kim criticizes US ‘hegemonism’ as sides move toward summit

Toned down rhetoric during meeting with Russian foreign minister comes ahead of planned White House visit by top deputy

By AP

North Korean Foreign Minister Ri Yong Ho (left) shakes hands with Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov at the Mansudae Assembly Hall, May 31, 2018, in Pyongyang, North Korea. (AP Photo/Jon Chol Jin)

May 31, 2018, 11:21 am

Russian foreign minister meets with North Korean counterpart

Sergey Lavrov's visit is seen as an attempt by Russia to gain influence as Pyongyang heads toward possible negotiations with the US and South Korea

By Agencies

Defense Minister Avigdor Liberman speaks with his military secretary Brig. Gen. Yair Kohls, left, and the head of Military Intelligence Maj. Gen. Tamir Hyman, right, during a flight to Moscow on May 30, 2018. (Ariel Hermoni/Defense Ministry)

May 30, 2018, 9:33 pm

Liberman heads to Moscow to lobby against Iranian presence in Syria

Defense minister to meet with Russian counterpart Sergei Shoigu; Netanyahu said to urge Pompeo to include Israel's security needs in plan for southern Syria

By TOI staff

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov attends a joint press conference with his German counterpart following their talks in Moscow on May 10, 2018. (AFP PHOTO / Yuri KADOBNOV)

May 30, 2018, 1:12 pm

Russia tells Iran to immediately remove militias from Syrian-Israel border

Demand that Tehran-backed fighters keep away from Jewish state indicates Moscow receptive to Jerusalem's concerns

By TOI staff

An undated image distributed by the North Korean government on September 3, 2017, shows North Korean leader Kim Jong Un at an undisclosed location. North Korea’s state media said Kim inspected a hydrogen bomb. (Korean Central News Agency/Korea News Service via AP)

May 30, 2018, 11:19 am

CIA says North Korea won’t denuclearize, but may open Western burger joint

US intelligence report said to cast doubt on Trump's goal in Kim summit; Russia's Lavrov to travel to DPRK this week

By Michael Bachner and Agencies

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov stands on the balcony before a meeting of President Vladimir Putin with French President Emmanuel Macron (both not pictured) at the Konstantin Palace in Strelna, outside Saint Petersburg, on May 24, 2018. (GRIGORY DUKOR/AFP)

May 28, 2018, 2:27 pm

Russia, backing Israel: Only Assad troops should be on Syria’s southern border

Foreign Minister Lavrov indicates Moscow open to Israeli demands that Iranian forces be kept far from Israel's frontiers; urges withdrawal of all 'non-Syrian forces'

By TOI staff

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov speaks with his Tajik counterpart (not pictured) during their meeting in Moscow on April 9, 2018. (AFP Photo/Yuri Kadobnov)

May 28, 2018, 1:59 pm

Israeli official says now’s the time to drive wedge between Russia, Iran

Intelligence ministry director says Kremlin coming to realize it will have to thwart Tehran or see its plans in Syria 'blown out of the water'

By TOI staff

Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, right, shakes hands with Russia's President Vladimir Putin, left, following their joint news statement after their meeting at the Presidential Palace in Ankara, on Dec. 11, 2017. (AP Photo/Burhan Ozbilici)

May 16, 2018, 8:39 pm

Putin urges ‘renunciation of violence’ in Gaza during call with Erdogan

Russian FM says 'blasphemous' to call 'peaceful' Palestinians killed in riots terrorists, as Hamas claims 50 of 62 said killed as its members

By AFP and TOI staff

Russian President Vladimir Putin, right, meets with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the Kremlin in Moscow on May 9, 2018. (AFP/Sergei Ilnitsky)

May 10, 2018, 9:18 pm

Russia seeks mediator role between Israel and Iran

With no way to get Jerusalem and Tehran at the same table, Moscow will seek to make sure the conflict does not spiral out of control

By Anaïs LLOBET

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov (R) and his German counterpart Heiko Maas enter a hall during a meeting in Moscow on May 10, 2018. (AFP PHOTO / Yuri KADOBNOV)

May 10, 2018, 8:20 pm

Russia and Iran will continue ‘close coordination’ on nuclear deal – Moscow

Putin expresses 'deep concern' over Trump's withdrawal from 2015 accord as Lavrov works with Germany to keep JCPOA together

By AFP

British Prime Minister Theresa May, left, and German Chancellor Angela Merkel speaking to the media following talks at the Chancellery in Berlin, July 20, 2016. (Sean Gallup/Getty Images/via JTA)

May 10, 2018, 3:00 pm

Britain, Germany knock Iran after its exchange of fire with Israel

Merkel says rocket attack on north a 'serious provocation'; May says Israel has 'every right to defend itself'; Russia calls for dialogue

By TOI staff and AFP

Foreign Minister Avigdor Liberman greets Russian President Vladimir Putin at the Ben Gurion airport on Monday (Kobi Gideon/GPO)

May 3, 2018, 12:09 pm

Liberman to Russian media: Israel ‘did not join’ Western action against Moscow

In interview with Kommersant, defense minister reiterates that Israel would destroy S-300 missile defense system in Syria if was used against Israeli jets

By Judah Ari Gross

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov (C), his Iranian counterpart Mohammad Javad Zarif (L) and Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu shake hands at the end of a joint press conference following their talks in Moscow on April 28, 2018. (AFP PHOTO / Alexander NEMENOV)

April 28, 2018, 2:29 pm

Russia, Turkey, Iran hold talks on Syria situation

The three nations have been attempting to find a political solution to the civil war raging between Assad loyalists and rebel groups

By Olga Rotenberg