Obama: We are at war with Isis not Muslims

“The situation with people joining ISIS is different compared to other conflicts, where people who would go usually had a more solid understanding of their religion, and what they wanted to do if they went to fight”, he said.

Obama also gave his first public acknowledgment of ISIS being behind the downing of a Russian airliner over Egypt late last month, killing more than 200 people.

Obama said Sunday that the world will not accept attacks on civilians as the “new normal” and said “viciousness of a handful of killers” who have “good social media” won’t stop the world from doing business. The president and world leaders are set to gather in Paris next week for long-scheduled climate talks.

After years of talking about the need to deepen trade, security and diplomatic ties with the region, White House officials had hoped the trip would be a victory lap.

Press TV has interviewed George Jabour, president of Syrian UN Associations in Damascus, about President Barack Obama calling on his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin to make a “strategic adjustment” in fight against Daesh terrorists in Syria.

Russian Federation started to launch airstrikes in Syria this fall.

Speaking on the sidelines of the East Asia Summit in Kuala Lumpur, the president sought to reassure allies that the US will continue as an effective leader of the global coalition to destroy ISIS.

Almost five years of fighting between Assad and Syrian rebels has created a vacuum that allowed IS to thrive in both Syria and Iraq. French Defense Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian said the West would “annihilate Islamic State worldwide”.

As Russia’s only offshore military base, preserving influence in Syria is crucial to Putin.

U.S.-led military efforts come amid parallel talks about a diplomatic solution to end Syria’s civil war.

The refugees Obama encountered at a school for poor children in Malaysia were not from Syria, and unlike the flood of Syrians meeting steep resistance in the US, these migrants had already been cleared to resettle in America.

Over the following days, Obama blasted US governors and presidential candidates who raised legitimate national security concerns about the screening of Syrian refugees. Assad considers anyone fighting him, including moderate rebels, to be terrorists. That program lets foreigners enter the USA without visas from 38 countries for short stays. We’ll keep standing up for the human rights and dignity of all people – because that is contrary to what these terrorists believe.

“We can and will find you anywhere, and when we do, we will take you off the battlefield one way or the other”, a senior administration official said.

The attack in Mali underscores the threat posed by Islamist militants who remain active in northern and central Mali despite the presence of United Nations peacekeepers. The dynamics were not unlike former President George W. Bush’s shift of focus from chasing Osama bin Laden in Afghanistan to deposing Saddam Hussein in Iraq. “Be assured that we stand with you against this new evil that blasphemes against the name of Islam”.

In my opinion, President Obama’s tone in last Monday’s news conference in Turkey was all wrong; he was tone-deaf, which we don’t expect from our politically savvy president. He said the US had survived mass casualties before and pointed out that New York’s Times Square was again filled with people – “rightly so”.

“When I hear political leaders suggesting that there would be a religious test for which a person who is fleeing from a war-torn country is admitted, when a few of those folks themselves come from families who benefited from protection when they were fleeing political persecution, that’s shameful, that’s not American”, Obama said.