UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - U.S. President Barack Obama on Monday said Washington is prepared to work with Russia and Iran to try to end the more than four-year war in Syria that has spawned Islamic State militants.
"The United States is prepared to work with any nation, including Russia and Iran, to resolve the conflict," Obama told the annual gathering of world leaders at the United Nations. "But we must recognise that there cannot be, after so much bloodshed, so much carnage, a return to the pre-war status quo."
"There is no room for accommodating an apocalyptic cult like ISIL (Islamic State) and the United States makes no apology for using our military as part of a broad coalition to go after it," he said. He described Syrian President Bashar al-Assad as a tyrant.
(Reporting by Jeff Mason and Louis Charbonneau, writing by Michelle Nichols)
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