Trump and Putin 'agree to defeat IS in Syria'

Vladimir Putin (L) and Donald Trump had kept the world guessing about whether they would formally meet in Vietnam

US President Donald Trump and Russia's Vladimir Putin have consented to battle alleged Islamic State (IS) in Syria until its annihilation, the Kremlin says.

It said an announcement was set up by specialists after the pioneers met quickly on the sidelines of an Asia-Pacific summit in Vietnam on Saturday.

Altogether, the two pioneers included three experiences inside 24 hours at the summit in the port city of Da Nang.

There has been no official affirmation from the US about the announcement up until now.

A meeting between President Trump and Vladimir Putin had been broadly expected at the Asia-Pacific Economic Co-operation (Apec) summit, however few points of interest have risen.

The match met without precedent for July at the G20 summit in the German city of Hamburg.


The two stood side by side in matching shirts for a group photo on Friday

Inquiries over Donald Trump's connections to Moscow have persistent his administration, with key previous associates under scrutiny for charged coordinated effort with Russian obstruction in the 2016 decision. The Kremlin has denied the charges.

While there was no official remark from the White House, an announcement discharged by the Kremlin on Saturday said the pioneers had "concurred that the contention in Syria has no military arrangement".

They likewise affirmed their "assurance to crush Isis [another term for IS]" and approached all gatherings to participate in the Geneva peace process.

As indicated by Russia's Interfax news office, they guaranteed to keep up existing Russian-US military channels of correspondence to avoid "genuine occurrences including the powers of accomplices battling IS".

Russia has been the Syrian government's principle partner in the six-year long respectful war. The US in the interim has been supporting Syrian Arab and Kurdish dissidents on the ground, and since 2014 it has driven a coalition doing air strikes against IS in Syria.

The jihadist aggregate has been pushed out of its primary fortresses in Syria lately by a blend of offensives including the Syrian armed force and the Kurdish and Arab coalition.

A month ago the US-upheld Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) pronounced they were in full control of Raqqa, a city that turned into the base camp of IS's so called "caliphate" in 2014.

Mr Trump and President Putin postured one next to the other for a photograph in specially crafted blue shirts for the summit on Friday. They likewise shook hands as pioneers sat down for chats on Saturday morning and later traded a couple of words before a "family photograph" of participants.


The two men were seen chatting as they joined a larger group shot of attendees at the summit

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov additionally met his US partner Rex Tillerson prior that day, a source from the Russian assignment revealed to Interfax news office. The Kremlin said the two had co-ordinated the announcement on Syria particularly for the meeting in Da Nang.

Inquiries about whether the two pioneers would formally meet or not were raised in the wake of clashing proclamations from the White House and the Kremlin on Friday.