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As pressure mounted on Washington to find a political solution for the Syrian crisis, US President Barack Obama warned Sunday that it would be a "mistake" to send Western troops into Syria to overthrow the Syrian President Bashar al-Assad.

In an interview with the BBC, he said the United States would continue strikes against the Daesh [Arabic Acronym for "ISIS"/ "ISIL"] group while continuing efforts to broker a transition deal between the Syrian government and its so-called "moderate" Syrian opponents.

"Syria has been a heart-breaking situation of enormous complexity, and I don't think there are any simple solutions," Obama said during his visit to London which ended Sunday.

He further warned that "it would be a mistake for the United States, or Great Britain, or a combination of Western states to send in ground troops and overthrow the al-Assad regime."

"But I do believe that we can apply international pressure to all the parties, including Russia and Iran...as well as those "moderate" oppositions that exist and may be fighting inside of Syria, to sit down at the table and try to broker a transition."

According to the Obama, "Now, that's difficult, and in the interim, we continue to strike "ISIL" targets in places like Raqqa, and to try to isolate those portions of the country, and lock down those portions of the country that are sending foreign fighters into Europe."

"There's going to be a military component to this, to ensure that... we're also engaging in the counter-terrorism activities that are necessary," Obama said.

In parallel, he stated: "in order for us to solve the long-term problems in Syria, a military solution alone -- and certainly us deploying ground troops -- is not going to bring that about."

Source: News Agencies, Edited by website team