US ‘hopeful’ on Syrian progress on destroying chemical weapons

The Trump administration welcomed progress from the Syrian government on two U.S. priorities during a meeting of the United Nations Security Council on Wednesday. John Kelley, the acting U.S. alternate representative to the United Nations, told the global body, “We take note of the Syrian government’s actions so far on critical files, including the destruction of Bashar al-Assad’s chemical weapons and the search for missing U.S. and foreign citizens in Syria.” (Read more at JNS).