Obama Says Islamic State Military Losses to Hurt Recruiting
- Group continues to lose ground in Syria and Iraq, Obama says
- He says he’s ‘not confident that we can trust the Russians’
Obama: Islamic State Not Invincible, Will Be Defeated
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President Barack Obama said Islamic State continues to lose territory in the Middle East, and that the terrorist group’s strongholds must be retaken in order to reduce the appeal of its propaganda.
“So long as they have those bases they can use their propaganda to suggest that somehow there’s still some caliphate," Obama said in a news conference at the Pentagon on Thursday after meeting with his national security advisers. "That can insinuate itself into the minds of folks who may be willing to travel there or carry out terrorist attacks.”