Obama says U.S. needs to be 'judicious' about troop use in Syria


  • World
  • Thursday, 29 Sep 2016

FORT LEE, Va. (Reuters) - President Barack Obama said on Wednesday he had yet to hear ideas for ending Syria's civil war that would not involve huge numbers of U.S. troops, even after bringing critics of his policy into the White House Situation Room.

Obama has been under pressure to do more for victims of Syria's 5-1/2-year civil war after the collapse of a U.S.- and Russian-brokered truce earlier this month was followed by intense bombing of Aleppo.

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