Michael Flynn, the designated national security advisor for incoming president Donald Trump, communicated by phone frequently late last month with Russian ambassador to the United States, Sergey Kislyak. And according to the Washington Post, in one of those phone conversations, Kislyak invited the United States to join Syrian peace talks with Turkey and Iran.
Here’s the Post‘s report, which is sourced from a Trump transition official:
The Obama administration has unsuccessfully engaged with Russia in diplomatic efforts to end the bloody civil war in Syria, which has pitted rebels of various motivations against the dictatorial president Bashar al-Assad. The Assad regime has received backing from both the governments in Tehran and Moscow, with both nations’ militaries participating in a bombing campaign on the city of Aleppo, the main rebel redoubt. Most of Aleppo fell to the Syrian army last month.
