Obama Says U.S. No Closer to Military Action in Syria Crisis
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President Barack Obama said the U.S. isn’t moving closer to taking military action in Syria even with the stalemate in the fighting and concerns about missed deadlines on chemical weapons destruction.
“We still have a horrendous situation on the ground in Syria,” the U.S. president said at a joint news conference with French President Francois Hollande from the East Room of the White House. The state of Syria is “crumbling” and “extremists have moved into the vacuum in a way that could threaten us over the long term,” he said.