President Donald Trump offered another glimpse of an emerging, sometimes contradictory foreign policy doctrine: trying to end various conflicts around the globe while vowing not to withdraw from the world entirely.

For days, President Donald Trump repeatedly floated the possibility of scrapping his Middle East travel schedule — one his team meticulously crafted for weeks — and adding a stop to personally mediate Ukraine-Russia peace talks in Turkey.

President Donald Trump is not going to Turkey to join Russia-Ukraine talks on Thursday, a U.S. official said on Wednesday.

President Trump often takes maximalist positions, only to back down and declare a win. His opponents are catching on.

“This world is a lot safer today than it was a week ago,” Trump crowed to reporters as he sized up the foreign policy challenges he's facing as he heads to Saudi Arabia, Qatar and the United Arab Emirates. “And a lot safer than it was six months ago.”

A painstakingly-constructed show of unity from the UK, US, and European allies fell away in hours after manoeuvring by Vladimir Putin.

US-Präsident Donald Trump erwägt, am Donnerstag in die Türkei zu fliegen, um an möglichen Gesprächen über den Ukraine-Konflikt zwischen seinen Amtskollegen Wolodymyr Selenskyj und Wladimir Putin teilzunehmen.