US Secretary of State John Kerry is to meet his British counterpart, William Hague on Wednesday for talks on the current crisis in Syria.

US Secretary of State John Kerry is to meet his British counterpart, William Hague on Wednesday for talks on the current crisis in Syria.

The meeting is to take place in Washington, where Hague will travel to.
 The visit was postponed from Monday, when the British foreign Secretary appeared in the Commons to answer MPs' questions on British eavesdropping agency GCHQ's links to a controversial US internet monitoring program.

But it is understood that Mr Hague's visit is likely to focus on putting pressure on Bashar Assad's regime in Damascus rather than the row over the US National Security Agency's Prism online surveillance project.

Plans to bring together the Syrian government and the foreign-backed opposition at talks in a planned international conference in Geneva have so far failed to come to fruition, and Hague at the weekend warned Damascus' gains on the ground "raised new hurdles."

President Barack Obama has asked his national security team, which includes Kerry, to "look at all options" to end the fighting, State Department spokeswoman Jen Psaki reiterated Tuesday, adding however there would be no American "boots on the ground."

Prime Minister David Cameron's official spokesman said: "This is a scheduled meeting. It is part of the ongoing close engagement that we have with allies, including the US, in support of the political solution that we want to see in Syria. My understanding is that the focus of the trip is very much Syria."