"The U.S. and its allies have held the Syrian government responsible for the chemical attack in northern Syria that killed more than 80".
Syria is Russia's only outpost in the Middle East.
But what, if anything, will Trump do next? The diplomats will discuss the latest developments in Syria, the unilateral attack of U.S. on Syrian government, and the political solution of the six-year-old crisis in the Arab country. Russian Federation suspended the agreement after the Trump administration fired cruise missiles at a Syrian airbase in response to the chemical attack.
Tillerson signaled a change of heart, saying "steps are under way" to form an global coalition that would seek to remove the Syrian president from power.
Trump, meanwhile, told Fox Business News that the USA had no plans to become more deeply involved in Syria and only did so because of last week's deadly chemical weapons attack that killed dozens.
Russian President Vladimir Putin's last-minute meeting with United States Secretary of State Rex Tillerson in Moscow Wednesday was about much more than keeping the Team Trump's envoy in suspense.
Putin meanwhile accused Assad's opponents of planning to stage chemical attacks to be blamed on Damascus in order to lure the United States deeper into the conflict.
Impulsive actions driven by personal feelings are no substitute for a long-term foreign policy.
"It would be a fantastic thing if we got along with Putin and if we got along with Russian Federation".
Putin's goal in the region is not to have long-term or positive influence. "What that means is, in the void, we have in effect multiple Russian Federation policies". The new administration is just not shaping up to be what Putin wanted.
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The Obama Iran deal was the Syria deal all over again.
Asked to clarify his suggestion, on Tuesday, that the mass poisoning - and the images of its young victims that left Ivanka Trump "heartbroken and outraged" - might have been "a provocation", staged to give the US a pretext for attacking Assad's government, Putin said that this was only one possible explanation for what happened last week in the town of Khan Sheikhoun. UN Ambassador Nikki Haley gave a fiery speech at the UN Security Council condemning Russia's annexation of Crimea, vowing that "our Crimea-related sanctions will remain in place until Russian Federation returns control over the peninsula to Ukraine".
Last year, the Kremlin sent the largest delegation in years - over 100 officials - to Baghdad to strengthen commercial and security ties.
There's a lot of history there - and potentially a lot more to be made at this critical juncture in American-Russian relations.
By courting the Taliban, Putin is helping to destabilise the already weak government in Kabul - and making himself indispensable to any U.S. strategy to escape the longest war in its history. Russian Federation strongly opposes the move in a region it considers part of its strategic sphere of interest.
Defense Secretary James Mattis told reporters Tuesday at the Pentagon that the decision to strike the al Shayrat airbase in western Syria "was in no way a harbinger of a change in our campaign" against Islamic State in the country.
Egypt's travails provide Putin with further opportunities to lend a hand.
The regime uses its relative military weakness to convince the Russians that they have to accept that Assad stays in place and that there isn't an alternative, otherwise the Syrian state will collapse. Conflicts over Russia's actions in Ukraine and Russia's alleged interference in the US presidential campaign were also likely topics.
He has since made his support of North Atlantic Treaty Organisation allies clear, but has reiterated his stance that European members need to meet their end of the bargain if they are to continue benefiting from the military alliance.
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