How Trump Could Sell Out Syria to Putin
Their upcoming meeting could dictate the fate of the war-ravaged country.
by Frederic C. Hof
Jun 29, 2018
2 minutes
Russia is in search of the ultimate deal with Syria.
At present, Washington is pressing Moscow to halt Syrian President Bashar al-Assad’s military offensive into southwestern Syria; Moscow, meanwhile, wants Washington to abandon the areas in Syria’s northeast that it has liberated from the Islamic State. With a summit between Presidents Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin looming, Russia may try to lure the United States
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