President Barack Obama says that the United States is willing to work with Russia and Iran to try to end the Syrian conflict.<br /><br /> Speaking at the UN General Assembly in New York on Monday, he denounced ISIL but also said that there can’t be a return to the status quo under Bashar al-Assad.<br /><br /> Obama described Assad as a tyrant and as the chief culprit behind the four-year civil war in which at least 200,000 people have died and millions have been driven from their homes internally or abroad as refugees.<br /><br /> Losing hope and fearful for their families, skilled Syrians join refugee exodus http://t.co/yBHOi0jNv9 pic.twitter.com/R26jnGNlHl— UN Refugee Agency (@Refugees) September 28, 2015<br /> <br /><br /> “When a dictator slaughters tens of thousands of his own people, that is not just a matter of one nation’s internal affairs,” Obama said.<br /><br /> “It breeds human suffering on an order of magnitude that affects us all. Likewise, when a terrorist group beheads captives, slaughters the innocent and enslaves women,
