Obama says considering new pressure on Syria’s Assad

By means of Steve Holland RANCHO MIRAGE, California (Reuters) – President Barack Obama stated on Friday he’s considering new how you can power the federal government of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad as he pledged recent U.S. help to Jordan’s King Abdullah, whose usa is reeling from the Syrian civil warfare. Obama and Abdullah held talks on the Sunnylands retreat, the property of the late philanthropist Walter Annenberg, in a desert region of California. With the Syrian civil conflict a central center of attention of their talks, Obama informed newshounds with Abdullah seated beside him that he does not are expecting the conflict to be resolved any time quickly and that “there are going to be some rapid steps that we’ve to take to lend a hand the humanitarian help there.” “There will probably be some intermediate steps that we are able to take applying more force to the Assad regime and we’re going to be continuing to work with all of the events concerned to try to maneuver forward on a diplomatic solution,” Obama said. “We have been ramping up our enhance to the average opposition and Jordan has its personal strong function to play in relationship to the moderate opposition,” said a senior Obama administration respectable after Obama and Abdullah held two hours of talks.