Bashar al-Assad
"I want to get out," Trump said last week.
He also criticized Obama for not ending Syria's violent conflict "long ago."
In Syria's Ghouta region, attacks continue even after a United Nations ceasefire.
The Assad regime and the rebels are using people’s hunger to advance their own interests.
WHAT'S HAPPENING
Almost 200 have died since Sunday.
More than a dozen children are among the dead.
The Trump administration is prepared to again take military action against Syrian government forces if necessary to deter the use of chemical weapons.
The sieges "are testaments to the impotence of the international community,” a new Siege Watch report states.
“The task of fighting armed bandits here in Syria, a task that it was essential to solve with the help of extensive use of armed force, has for the most part, been solved and solved spectacularly."