Obama to give prime-time address Sunday after shootings

President Obama has been criticized for previous statements regarding ISIS, including claims the terrorist group was “contained” just days before a violent series of attacks in Paris and weeks before the San Bernardino shootings.

President Obama will deliver a rare oval office address to the nation Sunday night about what the government is doing to keep Americans safe. Both were later killed by the police in an exchange of fire hours after they shot dead 14 people and injured 17 on Wednesday.

President Obama will also discuss broader threats to the nation, counter-offensive strategies and the need to continue to put pressure on ISIS.

The officials highlighted several pieces of information that point to the perpetrators being radicalised to violence to commit these heinous attacks.

Mr Obama will talk more about his determination that the Islamic State group must be destroyed.

The president will talk about the “broader threat of terrorism, including the nature of the threat, how it has evolved, and how we will defeat it”, the White House said in a statement.

President Obama met with his national security team to receive an update Saturday morning on the San Bernardino shooting, reaffirming the Federal Bureau of Investigation had not yet found any indication the two shooters were part of any larger worldwide terror networks or cells.

The president spoke earlier Saturday with a key ally in the fight against the Islamic State, French President Francois Hollande.