President Donald Trump spoke by phone on Tuesday with Russian President Vladimir Putin, weeks after the U. S. leader described relations between Washington and Moscow as reaching an all-time low.
MOSCOW—President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin spoke by phone on Tuesday about resolving the conflict in Syria, in their first conversation since American airstrikes targeted the Assad regime in retaliation for an alleged chemical-weapons attack.
The Kremlin described the conversation as “businesslike and constructive, ” while the White House issued a statement saying the two leaders agreed that “the suffering in…