Russia, a key ally of Syria’s Assad regime, showed its muscle by moving war ships closer to U.S. destroyers in the Mediterranean. It comes after the U.S. bombed a Syrian airbase in the wake of a deadly chemical attack. Ines de la Cuetara on the new tensions between the Kremlin and the Trump administration.
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