Citing senior U.S. officials, the network said Obama's national security team held four meetings in the past week that were driven by how the administration's Syria strategy fit into its campaign against Islamic State, which has seized large parts of Syria and Iraq.
"The president has asked us to look again at how this fits together," CNN quoted one senior official as saying. "The long-running Syria problem is now compounded by the reality that to genuinely defeat ISIL, we need not only a defeat in Iraq but a defeat in Syria." ISIL is another acronym for Islamic State.
A White House National Security Council official told Reuters: "The strategy with respect to Syria has not changed."
[jpost.com by Reuters]
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Syrian rebels reject UN's Aleppo truce plan ...
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The opposition-backed Free Syrian Army (FSA) in Aleppo has rejected a UN truce proposal that seeks to suspend fighting in Syria's second city, a day after the government hinted at considering it.
Zaher al-Saket, FSA military commander in the city, said on Wednesday that the proposal only serves the regime of President Bashar al-Assad, and pledged that his troops would continue their fight.
"First I would like to say that we completely reject this so-called freeze plan and truce," he said in an interview with Al Jazeera.
"We learned not to trust the Assad regime because they are cunning and only want to buy time. We saw what happened in Homs and we will never accept the same scenario in Aleppo."
The news came as forces loyal to Assad dropped a barrel bomb on Wednesday on Aleppo's al-Marjeh neighbourhood, according to activists.................http://www.aljazeera.com/news/middleeast/2014/11/syrian-rebels-rejects-un-aleppo-truce-plan-20141112172139629558.html
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