U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton is in Moscow to meet with senior Russian officials and to join top international diplomats in assessing the stalled Mideast peace process. Clinton arrived in the Russian capital Thursday morning after an overnight flight from Washington. She is ...

With the Mideast peace process stalled and U.S.-Israeli relations in crisis, Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton headed Wednesday to a Mideast strategy meeting of top international diplomats. As originally conceived, the meeting in Moscow of the so-called Quartet group of peacemakers — the U.S ...

A meeting this week of the Middle East quartet will "demonstrate international support" for indirect talks between Israel and the Palestinians, said a US State Department spokesman. "The Quartet meeting is a good occasion to demonstrate international support for efforts to promote proximity talks and to revive movement of the peace process," said spokesman Philip Crowley on Wednesday. He was ...

President Barack Obama on Wednesday denied a crisis was rocking US-Israeli relations, as one of the worst rows in years between the allies rumbled on over new homes for Jewish settlers. Obama's first public comments on the showdown came as his administration awaited a response from Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu about Washington's sharp complaints over the episode ...