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Russia has chosen to align itself with an “unreliable partner” in Syrian President Bashar al-Assad and can either join Western nations to play an important role in the country’s future or stick with his failing regime, U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson said. Tillerson, who spoke to reporters in Italy shortly before heading to Moscow for meetings with top officials, said Russia should rethink its decision to ally with Syria, Iran and Hezbollah in the Middle East. He said the U.S. decision to fire 59 Tomahawk missiles at Syria after an April 4 chemical weapons attack was “necessary as a matter of U.S. national security interest.”
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Russia has chosen to align itself with an “unreliable partner” in Syrian President Bashar al-Assad and can either join Western nations to play an important role in the country’s future or stick with his failing regime, U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson said. Tillerson, who spoke to reporters in Italy shortly before heading to Moscow for meetings with top officials, said Russia should rethink its decision to ally with Syria, Iran and Hezbollah in the Middle East. He said the U.S. decision to fire 59 Tomahawk missiles at Syria after an April 4 chemical weapons attack was “necessary as a matter of U.S. national security interest.”
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