Unable to stop Syria’s war, US offers Russia new partnership

Russian Federation backs Syrian President Bashar Assad.

“If the Russians would do the right thing in Syria, and that’s an important condition, as in all cases with Russia, we’re willing to work with them”, he said.

The proposal was discussed amid harsh criticism blaming the Obama administration for conceding to Russian demands in Syria.

However a senior USA official said before the talks that expectations were “very low”, but added: “Either we find a way to do something about it or not”.

Kerry is to hold a second day of talks in Moscow on Friday in the hopes of salvaging the stalled Syria peace process.

The U.S. sees the major trade off as deeper cooperation with Russian Federation, which they want, in exchange for Russian Federation making sure that the Syrian airforce is grounded.

Let Kerry bring the plans first, ” she told the media in Moscow.

Russian Federation and the USA have been waging separate military campaigns in Syria that have sometimes been at odds, with Russian Federation supporting Syria’s government and the US aiding in an effort to overthrow that government.

“That is consistent with what the Russians have been doing all along”, said a US military official, who like others spoke anonymously to criticize administration policy.

“The Russian politics is not based on making deals – it’s based on values, ” he said.

While Washington and Moscow share the goal of defeating ISIS, they don’t trust each other and are at odds on large questions such as a postwar Syria and whether it should include President Bashar Assad.

Capt. Abdelsalam Abdurrazek, a spokesman for Nur al-Din Zenki, a CIA-vetted rebel entity fighting near Aleppo, decried the USA for offering “to support an ally of the Syrian regime and an enemy of the Syrian people”. The eight-page proposal, which The Washington Post published on its website, shows the USA offering intelligence and targeting sharing, and even joint bombing operations.

The Russians, said one official, had known for weeks about Kerry’s upcoming visit to Moscow, yet two days before he was due to arrive they bombed a remote camp near Syria’s border with Jordan used by USA -backed rebels.

Mozahem al-Saloum of the New Syrian Army, which is fighting IS in eastern Syria, blamed Nusra for paving the way for IS, and said the USA plan could work if it guarantees Assad’s departure.

The nuclear powered aircraft carrier USS Harry S. Truman arrives at in Norfolk, Virginia, US, after supporting missions in Iraq and Syria.

“The Russian air force has increased the intensity of its strikes against targets of the armed units of global terrorist organisations near the city of Palmyra”, the ministry said in a statement Thursday on its Facebook page.

“The conversation was a continuation of the constructive, frank and detailed dialogue”, said Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov.