The president nevertheless stressed that the USA has to take the Islamic State threat seriously, and that the jihadist group will eventually be defeated. “ISIS is not 10 feet tall”, he said on NBC’s “Today” show. But the US contends Moscow is going after rebels fighting Assad, a Kremlin ally whom the USA wants pushed out.
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“Russia has not officially committed to the transition of Assad moving out”, Mr. Obama said in a news conference. After the Paris attacks, Obama’s strategy has come under repeated questioning, reported The Financial Express.
Despite a common enemy in the Islamic State, the US and Russian coalitions have waged separate campaigns save for coordination over airspace. Our way of life is stronger.
“It is worth us remembering when we look at the statistics that there are handsome, wonderful lives behind the bad death tolls we see in these places”, he said.
Obama says he and Hollande agreed the nations in the U.S.-led coalition must do more together to fight the Islamic State.
“I don’t think the approach is sufficient to (do) the job”, she told CBS’s “Face the Nation” with John Dickerson. Some Iranian forces are already in Syria, but coordinating with them would seem to be out of the question for the U.S., Turkey, and Arab powers. The White House hasn’t ruled out more such actions. “These proposals are deeply disturbing to me on many levels”. That program lets foreigners enter the US without visas from 38 countries for short stays.The American people are right to be concerned, Obama said Sunday. After the meeting, the two leaders will announce their plans to fight terrorism at a joint news conference at the White House.
US aircraft dropped warning leaflets and made strafing runs in the area to persuade the civilian drivers of the tanker trucks to abandon their vehicles before the bombing began, Warren said, adding that the USA believes no civilians were injured or killed. All weekend, commentators had mocked his recent declaration that the Islamic State was “contained”.
Obama was hit with a wave of criticism in the wake of the terrorists’ attacks in France and Lebanon, which left hundreds dead.
Even before Tuesday’s incident between Turkey and Russian Federation, Mr Hollande faced a tough challenge in getting Mr Obama to agree to a partnership with Moscow.
He will hold talks with German Chancellor Angela Merkel in Paris on Wednesday and with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Moscow on Thursday, before receiving Chinese Premier Xi Jinping in the French capital on Sunday.
On Monday, Hollande toured the deadliest site of the November 13 strikes, the Bataclan theater, with British Prime Minister David Cameron.
Obama said Sunday it would be “helpful” if Russia redirected its focus in Syria onto ISIS, noting that the militant group has been blamed for downing a Russian passenger plane last month in the Sinai peninsula.
“It will be helpful if Russian Federation directs its focus on ISIL”, he said, using another name for ISIS, instead of targeting rebels opposed to embattled Syrian leader Bashar al-Assad. “We don’t know that yet”.
The investigators, as detailed in The Times’ report, are examining years of intelligence reports by the U.S. Central Command and comparing them with reports about the same events produced by the CIA, the Defense Intelligence Agency and others.
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“In addition to hunting down terrorists, in addition to effective intelligence, and in addition to missile strikes, and in addition to cutting off financing and all the other things that we’re doing, the most powerful tool we have to fight ISIL is to say that we’re not afraid; to not elevate them; to somehow buy into their fantasy that they’re doing something important”.
