Obama says ISIS will lose Mosul and Raqqa

As of August 3, the administration said the US and its allies in the coalition had conducted 14,235 airstrikes on Islamic State in the campaign.

Numerous questions that came the president’s way focused on Trump.

“I’m telling you, November 8th, we’d better be careful because that election is going to be rigged”, Trump said Monday on Fox News. About half the city has been retaken from ISIL.

Prospects for a political solution in Syria, which Obama has said is the only option for resolving the conflict, have worsened amid increasing violence.

WASHINGTON (AP) – President Barack Obama says Islamic State militants will probably continue to be a threat to the USA even after the group is ousted from key strongholds in Iraq and Syria.

While they may not have been directed by the group, the attackers were reportedly inspired by ISIL.

Still, nothing can be certain or foolproof, the president said. We’re going to test and see if we can get something that sticks.

“A discussion or a call for administrative action I think is the least we can do given how she was recklessly handling classified material”, Ryan said.

Though dozens of Americans have become members of the Islamic State, and some have been recruited into the external operations wing, “they know it’s hard for them to get Americans into America” once they have traveled to Syria, he said.

President Barack Obama scoffed Thursday at Republican Donald Trump’s warnings earlier this week that the presidential election in November may be “rigged”. “We take it seriously”.

The terror group continues to lose ground in Iraq and Syria, Obama said. Iraqi forces have taken Fallujah and are pushing up the Euphrates River valley.

Yet, despite the massive effort, ISIL still holds Mosul, Iraq’s second-largest city, and the Syrian city of Raqqa.

Obama after a meeting with US Secretary of Defense Ashton Carter and members of the Joint Chiefs of Staff at the Pentagon Thursday.

US President Barack Obama warned Russian Federation faces fierce worldwide rebuke if it continues to make common cause with Syria’s brutal regime, signaling a renewed push to end the bloody 5-year civil war Thursday, August 4. “More than 14,000 strikes so far”.

Saying that recent battlefield defeats have shown that the Islamic State is “not invincible”, Obama outlined a strategy to use a recently recaptured air base in Iraq as a hub for US -backed Iraqi forces to “push into Mosul”, the major northern Iraqi city that the militants seized in 2014.

“They will lose them”.

Speaking at a news conference after a briefing at the Pentagon, Obama said the group has suffered so many setbacks on the battlefield that it has begun to concede its goal of holding a permanent territorial footprint in the Middle East.

A plan is in place for the “day after” ISIL is gone, the president said. “The alternative is the perpetuation of civil war”. “Given the deteriorating situation, it is time for Russian Federation to show it is serious about pursuing these objectives”, Obama said.

ISIL has raised its hateful flag in other areas, the president said. Though the number of ISIS fighters in Libya has dwindled, the U.S.is hoping to help Libya’s fledgling United Nations -backed unity government finish the job.

US officials maintain that no such video exists, and that the only video shown on TV was of the hostages being released in Switzerland.

In Afghanistan, American service members will work with Afghan forces to find and eliminate members of the group, he added.

“They’re, in fact, inevitably going to be defeated”, Obama said. But at the same time, the Islamic State and militants affiliated with the terrorist group have executed multiple high-profile attacks in western Europe and the United States.