Trump and Tillerson are ceding the advantage to Russia and Iran.
https://www.wsj.com/articles/putins-syria-plan-1510521991
http://newsader.com/40987-khimataka-asada-rossiya-sfabrikovala-v/
https://www.gazeta.ru/politics/2017/11/11_a_10980086.shtml
http://day.kyiv.ua/ru/blog/obshchestvo/cena-kryma-zaplatit-pridetsya-trizhdy
https://www.gazeta.ru/business/2017/11/10/10978904.shtml
Testimony presented before the House Foreign Affairs Committee, Subcommittee on Terrorism, Nonproliferation, and Trade and Subcommittee on Europe, Eurasia, and Emerging Threats on November 7, 2017.
https://www.rand.org/pubs/testimonies/CT483.html
https://www.gazeta.ru/army/2017/11/08/10975118.shtml
http://www.ng.ru/politics/2017-11-08/1_7111_tatarstan.html
http://cepa.org/EuropesEdge/The-Kosova-offensive
https://www.svoboda.org/a/28837327.html