Regarding the Syrian crisis and the alleged chemical weapons attack, Alfano said he held phone talks with Iranian counterpart Mohammad Javad Zarif on Monday.
Western leaders have refused to accept that, and hold Russian Federation partly responsible because of its military alliance with Syria and its promise to guarantee a 2013 agreement aimed at eradicating Syria's chemical-weapons stockpiles.
In a four-page document, the White House sought to rebut many of Moscow's claims about the circumstances of the attack.
Defense Secretary Jim Mattis says U.S.
"We rededicate ourselves to holding to account any and all who commit crimes against the innocents anywhere in the world", Tillerson said.
Tillerson hoped to take a definite G7 statement with him to Moscow.
In terms of the future of Bashar al-Assad, it is important to us that we undertake a political process that leads to the final conclusion of how Syria will be governed.
In all the United States fired 59 cruise missiles at the Shayrat Airfield from two U.S. destroyers in the Eastern Mediterranean last Thursday, targeting the base's refueling infrastructure, and destroying about 20 percent of the fixed-wing aircraft there. Only weeks earlier, USA officials, including President Donald Trump, were signaling a willingness to work with Russian Federation and saying that Assad's status was not a priority for the time being.
The president's son, Eric Trump, told The Daily Telegraph in an interview that the president had been influenced by his sister's reaction to the gas attack that killed dozens last week.
Eric Trump has insisted that there is "no-one harder" than his father as he says Donald Trump will not be "pushed around" by Vladimir Putin.
Spicer later apologized and said he should not have made the comparison.
Although Syria dominated discussion, the diplomats met as the United States is sending a Navy carrier strike group toward the Korean Peninsula in a show of strength following North Korea's persistent ballistic missile tests. The meeting is taking place privately.
The foreign ministers' discussions will prepare the way for a G7 leaders' summit in Sicily at the end of May, which looks set to be Trump's first overseas trip since becoming president. The statement comes after American the USA targeted the regime supported by Russian Federation in missile strikes last week.
At a press conference in Sarajevo, the Republican senator said the U.S.
The answer lies in Assad's refusal to compromise or offer any significant concessions since the Syrian uprising began in March 2011, and later morphed into a civil war.
Until Monday, U.S. officials had said they weren't sure whether Russian Federation or Syria operated the drone. "First of all there was a campaign launched in Iraq and it finished with the destruction of the country, the growth of the terrorist threat and the emergence of ISIS on the worldwide area, no less than that", he told reporters after a meeting with Italian President Sergio Mattarella in Moscow.
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They say it gives the former real estate mogul breathing room to learn on the job and accept advice from more seasoned advisers.
Tillerson's comments come in the wake of US missile strikes last week against a Syrian military base where aircraft that delivered a chemical weapon attack against a rebel-controlled town in northern Syria are believed to have taken off from.
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No component of Trump's Syria policy has engendered more confusion than Assad's future - an issue that similarly befuddled the Obama administration, whose once-adamant position that Assad must go softened substantially by the time President Barack Obama left office in January.
"You can not have a stable Syria without jihadist elements on the ground as long as Bashar al-Assad is in power", Rubio said on ABC's "This Week".
The G-7 has called for an independent worldwide investigation into last week's chemical attack in Syria, and Johnson says depending on what it finds "those responsible for unleashing those chemical weapons" could face sanctions - including Russian officers. A spokesman for the office of the British Prime Minister Theresa May said in a statement that Trump and the United Kingdom leader had agreed in a phone call that a "window of opportunity" existed to put pressure on Putin to abandon the Syrian president.
He also said that Syrian authorities were prepared to allow worldwide experts to their military bases with an investigation.
A key focus since the chemical attack has been on increasing pressure on Russia, Assad's strongest ally, which has used its own military to keep Assad in power.
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a British-based monitoring group, said Syrian warplanes dropped barrel bombs on rebel-held areas of Hama province on Tuesday.
"The Syrian government would be ill-advised ever again to use chemical weapons", he added.
The Syrian government also denied the allegation, saying its air force bombed a rebel arsenal that had chemical weapons stored inside.
Instead, the USA is hoping to use the visit - the first by a Trump Cabinet official to Russia - to convey its expectations to Moscow and then allow the Russians a period of time to respond.
Italian Foreign Minister Angelino Alfano said the US intervention had offered "a window of opportunity to construct a new positive condition for the political process in Syria".
The U.S. -backed Syrian Democratic Forces has been on the offensive since November capturing territory with the aim of laying siege to Raqqa.
Mr Tillerson said it was unclear whether Russian Federation had failed to take seriously its obligation to rid Syria of chemical weapons or had merely been incompetent, but he said the distinction "doesn't much matter to the dead".
The new details from a declassified US assessment add to tensions with Russian Federation just as Secretary of State Rex Tillerson makes his first visit to Moscow and presses the Kremlin to drop its support for Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, the Washington Post reported. Yet the US has no proof of Moscow's involvement, said the official, who wasn't authorized to speak publicly on intelligence matters and demanded anonymity.
After the April 4 chemical attack, Trump said his attitude toward Assad "has changed very much" and Tillerson said "steps are underway" to organize a coalition to remove him from power. Assad likely chose to test those boundaries, not expecting Trump to respond militarily because the US president has made it clear that he sees fighting Islamic State as his highest priority in Syria and Iraq. German Foreign Minister Sigmar Gabriel said Russian Federation, and Assad ally Iran, must be involved in any peace process to end Syria's six-year civil war.
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