http://www.nytimes.com/2014/09/06/world/middleeast/us-and-allies-form-coalition-against-isis.html?_r=0Obama Recruits 9 Allied Nations To Combat ISIS By HELENE COOPERSEPT. 5, 2014
Obama: The Goal Is to ‘Dismantle’ ISIS
The president commented on the battle against the Islamic State during a news conference at the NATO summit in Wales.
NEWPORT, Wales — President Obama escalated the American response to the marauding Islamic State in Iraq and Syria on Friday, recruiting at least nine allies to help crush the organization and offering the outlines of a coordinated military strategy that echoes the war on terror developed by his predecessor, George W. Bush, more than a decade ago.
In his most expansive comments to date about how the United States and its friends could defeat ISIS, a once-obscure group of Sunni militants that has now upended the Middle East and overshadowed Al Qaeda, Mr. Obama said the effort would rely on American airstrikes against its leaders and positions, strengthen the moderate Syrian rebel groups to reclaim ground lost to ISIS, and enlist friendly governments in the region to join the fight.
U.S. Military Strategy Against ISISAUG. 21, 2014
President Obama and Prime Minister David Cameron of Britain visited students at Mount Pleasant Primary School, in Newport, Wales, as leaders gathered for a NATO summit meeting on Thursday.
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President Obama spoke with President François Hollande of France at the NATO summit in Newport, Wales, on Friday.
NATO Plans a Special Force to Reassure Eastern Europe and Deter RussiaSEPT. 5, 2014
President Obama, Prime Minister David Cameron of Britain and the NATO secretary general, Anders Fogh Rasmussen, seated.
NATO Prepares New Sanctions Over Russian Action in Ukraine SEPT. 4, 2014
While the president’s aides maintained that
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Boy that was fast. Obama is back in the saddle.
