Barack Obama has warned President Assad "cannot slaughter his way to legitimacy" - amid Russian claims Aleppo has been "liberated".
President Obama said the world was "united in horror" at the situation.
"Responsibility for this brutality lies in one place alone: with the Assad regime and its allies, Russia and Iran," he told a White House news conference.
"And this blood and these atrocities are on their hands."
He added there had been no appetite for a big US military intervention earlier in the war, that he believes would have been the only way to stop the bloodshed.
"Unless we were all in and going to take over Syria we were going to have problems," he said.
"It sounded like the right thing to do but it was going to be impossible to do this on the cheap."
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