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US President Barack Obama and his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin met Monday as talks between their governments on ending violence in Syria ended without an agreement. The two leaders conversed on the sidelines of the Group of 20 summit here for ninety minutes, a senior US official said, and worked to clarify gaps in negotiations over on the Syrian crisis.
Turkish troops and allied Syrian rebels expelled the Islamic State group from the last strip of territory it controlled along the Syrian-Turkish border on Sunday, effectively sealing the extremists' self-styled caliphate off from the outside world, Turkey's prime minister and a Syrian opposition group reported. Also on Sunday, Syrian pro-government forces backed by airstrikes launched a wide offensive in the northern city of Aleppo, capturing areas they lost last month and besieging rebel-held neighborhoods, state media and opposition activists said.
U.S. President Barack Obama is continuing his diplomatic slog in China on Sunday, meeting with counterparts from the United Kingdom and Turkey -- two essential U.S. allies -- as each leader confronts widespread internal strife back home. It's the second day of high-stakes diplomacy for Obama, who arrived here Saturday to an inauspicious welcome: no red-carpeted stairs for Air Force One and open quarreling on the tarmac between Chinese and U.S. officials over press access.
A Turkish boy waves to Turkish tank convoy driving into Syria from the Turkish Syrian border city of Karkamis in the southern region of Gaziantep, on August 26, 2016. On Friday, after four years of conflict, buses evacuated about 8,000 of the remaining residents of the Syrian town of Daraya, a suburb of Damascus, something that brought cheers from pro-government fighters.
The White House is condemning the Syrian government Thursday after having announced that a year-long UN-backed investigation found that both the Assad regime and ISIS had used chemical weapons. "It is now impossible to deny that the Syrian regime has repeatedly used industrial chlorine as a weapon against its own people," US National Security Council spokesman Ned Price said in a statement Wednesday.
Kurdish forces announced Thursday their withdrawal form Manbej, a north Syrian town they captured from the Islamic State group two weeks ago. The People's Protection Units said the allied forces of the Syrian Democratic Forces left the town after completing the mission of liberating it from the IS.
In this frame grab taken from video provided by the Syrian anti-government activist group Aleppo Media Center , 5-year-old Omran Daqneesh sits in an ambulance after being pulled out or a building hit by an airstirke, in Aleppo, Syria, Wednesday, Aug. 17, 2016. The White Helmets, were among the crowd of first responders who pulled Daqneesh and his family from the rubble of their apartment building Wednesday night.
As secretary of state, Hillary Clinton basked in a diplomatic "Moscow Spring," seizing on Vladimir Putin's break from the presidency to help seal a nuclear arms-control treaty and secure Russia's acquiescence to a NATO-led military intervention in Libya. When Putin returned to the top job, things changed.
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In this photo released by the Syrian official news agency SANA, Syrian President Bashar Assad speaks in Damascus, Syria, Tuesday, June 7, 2016. State Department officials shook up America's generally obedient diplomatic establishment this week with an internal memo urging U.S. military action against Syria's government with the goal of pressing Assad to accept a cease-fire and gaining the upper hand on him in future talks on a political transition.
Rachel Maddow, the famously progressive MSNBC show host, pronounced it "her greatest speech of the campaign." Chris Matthews agreed, adding that it would "have a very strong appeal to the neocon movement."