WASHINGTON - President Obama confronted a pair of volatile international crises with restraint on Aug. 28 as he said he was not close to authorizing airstrikes against Islamic extremists in Syria and played down the latest escalation of Russia's military intervention in Ukraine.
Russia's War Against Ukraine
New York Times: Obama urges calm in face of crises in Ukraine and Syria
Residents of Syria's Yarmuk Palestinian refugee camp, south of Damascus, collect aid food on Aug. 22, 2014.
