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Will Syria come up in Biden-Putin summit?

US pressing to maintain humanitarian corridors into Syria; Erdogan’s issues with US Syria policy; UN envoy refers to Syria’s "tragic irony."

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This combination of file pictures created by Getty Images on June 4, 2021, shows then US Vice President Joe Biden (L) at a drive-in event in Coconut Creek, Florida, on Oct. 29, 2020, and Russian President Vladimir Putin following his inauguration ceremony at the Kremlin in Moscow on May 7, 2018. The pair are to meet June 16 in Geneva. — JIM WATSON/AFP / YEKATERINA SHTUKINA/SPUTNIK/Pool/AFP via Getty Images

US ramps up for showdown with Russia over humanitarian corridor

In July 2018, when US President Donald Trump met with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Helsinki, Putin did most of the talking. Much of it was about Syria.

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