The conversation will also take place with both leaders under enormous domestic pressure and amid signs their political priorities are irreconcilable.
Biden badly needs the war to end to ease anger among progressives that is threatening his weakened political coalition ahead of November’s election.
The backdrop to the call is US fury over the killings of seven aid workers from World Central Kitchen in an Israeli strike in Gaza.
And the killings of the aid workers threatens to halt a vital lifeline needed to mitigate famine in the Hamas-run Gaza Strip.
The strike on Damascus also heaped more domestic political pressure on Biden from inside the Democratic Party.
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