Tillerson in Russia, Says Moscow Must Choose between West or Assad and His Allies

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Tillerson in Russia, Says Moscow Must Choose between West or Assad and His Allies
إNaharnet Newsdesk  21 hours ago

Secretary of State Rex Tillerson flew into Moscow Tuesday to confront the Kremlin over its support for Bashar al-Assad as the U.S. questioned if Russia was complicit in an alleged chemical weapons attack. 

Tillerson is the first senior U.S. official to visit Moscow since President Donald Trump took office promising to seek closer anti-terrorist cooperation with Russia, but as he arrived relations were already tense.

Last week, the U.S. fired a volley of cruise missiles at a Syrian airbase in response to an alleged regime attack using a suspected nerve agent that killed at least 87 civilians in a rebel-held town, many of them children.

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