US President Barack Obama holds a press conferenceat the White House in Washington, DC, August 28, 2014. (AFP)
US President Barack Obama on Thursday signalled there would not be immediate US military strikes in Syria, saying that Washington was still developing a strategy on tackling the conflict there.
"I don't want to put the cart before the horse. We don't have a strategy yet," Obama told reporters, explaining that the US did not "have to choose" between Syrian President Bashar al-Assad and Islamic State jihadist fighters.