WASHINGTON - First Lady Melania Trump announced Friday that she's opened a "channel of communication" with Russian President Vladimir Putin to reunite children separated from their families as a ...

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, ...

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 Trump mulls his ...

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 ...