Marise Payne says Trump administration has asked for no further commitment from Australia after attack on Syrian airbaseMalcolm Turnbull has called on Moscow to pull Bashar al-Assad into line, referring to Syria as a client state of Russia. “The onus is now on Russia to pull Assad into line,” Turnbull said in Papua New Guinea before flying to India for his first official visit. “Let’s be quite clear: the Assad regime is a client state of Russia.”He played down tensions between the United States and Russia after the US cruise missile strikes on the Syrian airbase of Shayrat. But his comments came as Russia sent a warship armed with cruise missiles to join its battlegroup off the coast of Syria. “I know that is acknowledged by Iraq particularly, by the United States and other members of the coalition.

Source: The Guardian April 09, 2017 01:26 UTC