“We vanquished them”, he said.
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This undated file photo posted on Wednesday, August 27, 2014 by the Raqqa Media Center of the Islamic State group, a Syrian opposition group, which has been verified and is consistent with other AP reporting, shows a fighter from the Islamic State group with Syrian prisoners.
Germany is part of the coalition, but is not among those conducting airstrikes. He referred to as on Russian Federation to make a “strategic adjustment” & drop its support for Assad, insisting the violence in Syria can’t be stopped so long as Assad is in workplace. [Photo by Chris McGrath/Getty Images]Russia was pulled into the fight against ISIS in the past month when ISIS claimed responsibility for the downing of a Russian passenger jet that killed 224 people. The two met last week during an economic summit in Turkey.
He expressed concern that legislation being considered in the U.S. House, though not as radical as that voiced by a few Republican presidential candidates in the past week, could “gum up the works so much” that it would effectively end the refugee program for “people who desperately need it”, particularly children.
The Paris attacks have heightened fears of terrorism in the West and also sparked a debate in the USA about accepting refugees from Syria. “The United States could never be at any war with any religion because America is made up by multiple religions”.
President Obama advised Americans not to give in to fear despite the ISIS attacks in Paris and Mali. The president has since softened his tone. His administration tried to convince U.S. House members that the refugee screening process was sufficient, and Obama began entertaining a U.S. Senate proposal to deny visa waivers to recent visitors to Iraq and Syria.
Obama was hit with a wave of criticism in the wake of the terrorists’ attacks in France and Lebanon, which left hundreds dead. He urged Americans against “succumbing to the fear that allows us to abandon our values, to abandon how we live”.
“Our nation was horrified, but it’s not going to be terrorized”, President George W. Bush declared five days after those attacks. “We’re a nation that can’t be cowed by evil-doers”.
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“It is not conceivable that Mr. Assad can regain legitimacy in a country in which a large majority of that country despises Assad, and will not stop fighting so long as he’s in power”, Obama said Sunday at a news conference in Kuala Lumpur. He said the USA had survived mass casualties before and pointed out that New Yorks Times Square was again filled with people rightly so.I was very proud of the fact that the fundamental nature of America and how we treated each other did not change, Obama said.
