U.s. Weighs Next Steps As Syria’s Civil War Enters Climactic Phase

EDWARD WONG, GARDINER HARRIS and THOMAS GIBBONS-NEFF, NY Times: Politics
Fri, 09/21/2018 - 4:39pm

The Trump administration insists on Geneva-based peace talks as Russia and Turkey promote a truce in Syria. And it wants to keep U.S. troops in the east.

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