Trump, Putin Emerge from Two-Hour Meeting With Syria Cease-Fire
- Trump raised election meddling to Putin, who denied it
- Past Syria cease-fire agreements have collapsed quickly
President Trump appears with Russian President Vladimir Putin at the G-20 summit and previews their closed door bilateral meeting. (Source: Bloomberg)
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President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin stretched their first-ever meeting beyond the two-hour mark and emerged with an agreement for a cease-fire in southwest Syria in the hopes of finding a path to resolve that nation’s punishing civil war.
"A cease-fire has been entered into," U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson told reporters in Hamburg, the site of the Group of 20 summit where Trump and Putin met. This is the "first indication of the U.S. and Russia being able to work together in Syria," he said.