The first sign of the decreasing tension is the visit by the U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson to Moscow.
Ahead of his arrival, the Kremlin officially announced that President Vladimir Putin wasn't going to meet with the American official, in an apparent dismay with the U.S. strike.
However, Tillerson and Putin met during the visit, and right afterward, Russia said it re-activated the flight safety agreement over Syria.
Maher Ihsan, a Syrian political analyst, said that Putin wouldn't have met the U.S. official if it wasn't for new understandings reached between Tillerson and his Russian counterpart, Sergey Lavrov, ahead of Tillerson's meeting with Putin.
The details of the new understandings were not made public, but Syrian foreign ministry officials were invited by Russia and will hold meetings in Moscow on Thursday, following the meeting between the U.S. official and Putin.
The analyst also pointed out to the new interview of President Donald Trump, whose administration announced recently that Assad shouldn't have any role in future Syria.
Trump said that the U.S. is not "insisting" on removing Syrian President Assad from power, adding that peace in Syria is not impossible with Assad in power.
"Are we insisting on it? No. But I do think it's going to happen at a certain point," Trump said, adding that it's not impossible for peace with Assad still in power. "I think it's hard to imagine. I wouldn't use the word impossible. I think the word impossible is not right. But it does seem like you certainly wouldn't be off to a good start."
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