(UNITED NATIONS) — U.S. Ambassador Nikki Haley says Syrian President Bashar Assad is “a war criminal” who has been an obstacle to peace for years — but she says the U.S. isn’t ruling out cooperating with him to defeat the Islamic State extremist group. Haley told a news conference Friday that what Assad has done…

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