President Barack Obama said that the U.S.-led coalition is hitting global threat of Islamic State (IS) ‘harder than ever’ and moving forward with its strategy with ‘a great sense of urgency.’
‘As we squeeze its heart we’ll make it harder for ISIL to sell its propaganda to the world,’ Obama said following a meeting at the Pentagon with his national security council, using an alternative name for ISIS, ABC News reported.
He added that “ISIL leaders cannot hide and our message to them is ‘you are next,'” report said. Obama said that U.S. coalition partners on the ground are rooting ISIL out town by town, neighborhood by neighborhood, block by block. That is what the campaign is doing as they are hitting ISIL harder than ever.
Obama added that his administration continually reassesses its strategy to fight ISIS, not only against trained extremists on the battlefields of Syria and Iraq, but also in the U.S. homeland against radicalized followers.
President Obama paid a rare visit to the Pentagon to chair a National Security Council meeting on the counter-ISIS campaign.
