U.S. President Barack Obama on Tuesday denied offering Russia a deal in which Washington would slow deployment of a missile defense shield in Europe in exchange for Moscow's help in a nuclear stand-off with ......

The United States signaled a willingness on Friday to slow plans for a missile defense shield in eastern Europe if Russia agreed to help stop Iran from developing nuclear weapons....

Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said on Tuesday a final decision on deployment of a missile shield in eastern and central Europe hinged in part on Iran's willingness to curb its nuclear ambitions....

NATO said on Saturday it was willing to include Russia in talks about a missile defense shield but does not consider serious defense cooperation possible unless Moscow abandons old thinking....

Poland's Prime Minister Donald Tusk said he would tell Vice President Joe Biden when they meet in Munich on Saturday that Warsaw was ready to host parts of the U.S. missile shield system, as agreed in August....

The opinions expressed are his own - Arms control is back and will thaw icy relations between the United States and Russia this year, but how far the new detente goes depends on the truculent mood in Moscow....

The United States and Russia have a chance to achieve a "real breakthrough" in their relationship by cooperating on missile defense, an influential U.S. senator said on Friday....

Russia's defense and foreign ministers will meet their U.S. counterparts to discuss sensitive strategic issues before an expected presidential meeting on April 2, a Russian official was quoted as saying on ......

Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin praised incoming U.S. President Barack Obama as "sincere and open" Saturday but said Moscow needed to see how he turned out in practice....

Russia will stop developing some strategic weapons if the United States drops plans for a missile shield in Europe, Interfax news agency quoted the commander of Russia's strategic missile forces as saying on ......