Obama Pins Blame for ‘Atrocities’ in Aleppo on Assad, Russia
- President says a ‘broader cease-fire’ needed to end Syrian war
- An impartial force should supervise Aleppo evacuation, he says
Obama: Assad Regime Can’t Slaughter Its Way to Legitimacy
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President Barack Obama said his administration would press for a broader cease-fire in Syria and the delivery of humanitarian aid to Aleppo, and placed blame for atrocities in the city on Syrian President Bashar al-Assad and his Russian and Iranian allies.
“The responsibility for this brutality lies in one place alone,” Obama said at his last annual end-of-the-year news conference at the White House on Friday. “This blood and these atrocities are on their hands.”