As C.I.A. director, William J. Burns was deeply focused on China and Russia when the Middle East conflict plunged him back ...

The White House scrambled to get a message to President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia last year after U.S. intelligence ...

David E. Sanger is a national security correspondent and senior writer for the New York Times, a contributor to CNN and an adjunct lecturer at the Kennedy School of Government. In a 38-year ...