Obama and Putin Meet in China Amid Struggle for Syria Deal

By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS from NYT World http://ift.tt/2c5Pggg
via IFTTT The United States and Russia struggled Monday to keep alive negotiations to end the bloodshed between U.S.-backed rebels and Syria's Russian-aligned regime. Even as top diplomats vowed to keep trying, President Barack Obama expressed skepticism that an unlikely alliance between rivals would yield the breakthrough needed to end the 5-year-old civil war.