Obama Vows World Will Defeat ISIS, Urges Russian Federation to Help

Obama’s strong words came after criticism for his response to the recent terror attacks in France and Lebanon, in which hundreds of people were killed and injured.

The group responsible for the Paris terror attacks is “a bunch of killers with good social media”, he said. “The reason they use acts of terrorism like the bombing of the jet liner, the attacks in Paris and Charlie Hebdo, beheadings, burnings, the reason they have done all these horrific things is to terrorize, sure, but mostly, to provoke us into responding and buying into their strategy”. We need to be aggressive now, because ISIL … has 30,000 fighters. “This will be no different”. President Barack Obama urged the public on Sunday not to elevate the Islamic State group, also known as ISIS or ISIL, as more powerful than it actually is.

“All these terrorists and ideology extremists should be defeated in the name of humanity”, he said at the annual East Asia Summit, this year hosted by Malaysia.

“He needs to go after the people who killed Russian citizens”, Obama said of Putin, whose government supports the embattled regime of Syrian president Bashar al-Assad.

Mr Obama said it “would be helpful” if Russian Federation directed its focus on tackling Islamic State and he hoped Moscow would agree to a leadership transition in Syria that meant its president stepping down.

President Barack Obama has called on his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin to make a “strategic adjustment” in fight against Daesh terrorists in Syria. Obama said the kind of “prejudice” shown in the debate, including a few “radical” ideas from Republican presidential hopefuls, “helps ISIL and undermines our national security”. So is the pressure on Turkey and the West’s Arab allies to stop shirking their responsibility in this fight.

Still, the House passed legislation last week essentially blocking Syrian and Iraqi refugees from the US Democrats in large numbers abandoned the president, with 47 voting for the legislation.

Hillary Clinton, Mr. Obama’s former secretary of state and now the leading Democratic contender to succeed him in the White House, reiterated her call for a no-fly zone over parts of Syria, saying: “It is time to begin a new phase … to smash the would-be caliphate”.

It was a gesture aimed at winning over skeptical Americans who are growing increasingly anxious over the Obama administration’s plans to welcome thousands of Syrian refugees into the United States over the next two years.

Visiting a refugee center in Kuala Lumpur on Saturday, Obama appeared emotional as he greeted migrant children who had escaped persecution in Myanmar, Somalia and Sudan.

Obama says they discussed efforts to counter Islamic State extremists, the recently concluded Trans-Pacific Partnership free-trade pact, climate change and tensions in the South China Sea. “That is contrary to our values”. He said the women reminded him of his teenage daughters and his late mother. He added that everyone can do their part not to create a perception bolstering ISIL’s propaganda, which falsely asserts that somehow the U.S.is at war with Islam.