As Russian-backed troops encircle the key rebel stronghold of Aleppo in Syria — a potential turning point in the Arab state’s nearly five-year-old conflict — President Barack Obama’s diplomacy-first approach is also coming under siege.
Politico: Russians lay siege to Obama’s Syria strategy
Russian President Vladimir Putin delivers a speech at a meeting with activists of the All-Russian People's Front in the southern Russian city of Stavropol on January 25, 2016.
