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Latest Talks See US Yield to Russia over Southern Syria

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This is a good thing. Our Neos in the House and Senate can obstruct Trump’s foreign policy, but they can’t make him send someone to a meeting!

Away from television cameras and media attention, technical advisers from the US, Russia, and Jordan wrapped up a low-profile meeting in Amman this week.

On the agenda was the “de-conflict” zone in southern Syria agreed upon, in principle, by presidents Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin at the G20 meeting in Hamburg, in July.

The meeting’s outcomes were noteworthy, especially coming on the heels of an announcement that US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson is to abolish the job of “Special Envoy for Syria.” Read more here.