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What's Next in Syria?

After military strikes, the next steps are likely to be diplomatic.
Source: Syrian TV / Reuters

U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson has a difficult job when he heads to Moscow next week. His Russian counterpart, Sergey Lavrov, has already compared the U.S.’s rationale for strikes in Syria—a sarin gas attack on civilians earlier in the week widely attributed to the Assad regime—to the flawed evidence the U.S. presented to the UN Security Council in 2003to successfully make the case for the war in Iraq. And Tillerson said after the U.S. strikes

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