Echoing previous administrations, Secretary of State Rex Tillerson has said the “new” strategy in Syria will involve a long-term American military presence and regime change in order to secure US interests.

While Hitler is believed not to have used chemical weapons on the battlefield, the Nazis used cyanide-based Zyklon B and other types of poison to kill Jews in gas chambers at concentration camps.

Any foreign forces, including those from the US, that enter Syria without invitation are invaders, Syrian President Bashar Assad told Chinese media in an interview, noting that no one had given the US troops currently in Manbij permission to be there.

Without a doubt, relations between Russia and the West have reached their lowest point since the height of the Cold War.

Obama and Russian President Vladimir Putin plan to huddle on the sidelines of the summit, the White House said.