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Obama and Putin Duel
Syrian dictator Bashar Assad became a rope in a tug-of-war between President Obama and Russian President Vladimir Putin, as the two leaders debated his fate following a four-year civil war that has killed more than 200,000 and sent 4 million Syrians fleeing their country