According to the rumor, the former U.S. president established the secret communication channel to undermine President Donald ...

First lady Melania Trump said she has been communicating directly with Russian President Vladimir Putin through a ‘back channel’ that helped to return eight Ukrainian children displaced by the war, ...

Jun 20th, 2025 Expect Iran Back-Channel Talks, Strikes to Continue, Says Fmr. US Ambassador to Israel Dan Kurtzer, former US ambassador to Israel, says that over the next two weeks, while President ...

FILE - French President Nicolas Sarkozy, left, greets Libyan leader Col. Moammar Gadhafi upon his arrival on Dec. 10 2007 at the Elysee Palace, in Paris. (AP Photo/Francois Mori, File) PARIS (AP) — ...

Foreign ministers from Egypt, Turkey, Saudi Arabia and Pakistan gathered before dawn Thursday in Riyadh for talks aimed at finding a diplomatic off-ramp to the war in Iran. But there was one big ...

Back-channel diplomacy refers to unofficial but direct, high-level communications that bypass formal channels, according to "Safire's Political Dictionary." These talks sometimes can help governments ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. PARIS (AP) — The monthslong trial of former ...

Trump’s shift Monday morning followed a series of closed-door discussions—through Middle Eastern intermediaries—that U.S. officials said gave them hope an agreement to settle the conflict was possible ...

PARIS (AP) — The monthslong trial of former French President Nicolas Sarkozy over the alleged illegal financing of his 2007 presidential campaign is shedding light on France’s surprising back-channel ...