Obama vows to ‘hunt down IS leaders’ as Assad says airstrikes are working

President Barack Obama vowed on Sunday that the U.S and its international partners “will not relent” in the fight against Islamic State, insisting the world would not accept the extremists’ attacks on civilians in Paris and elsewhere as the “new normal”. He told a press conference after a meeting of Asian leaders in Malaysia: “Destroying (Islamic State) is not only a realistic goal, were going to get it done." In the wake of the Paris terror attacks, Obama will host French President Francois Hollande at the White House on Tuesday.

We will destroy them. We will take back land they are currently in, take out their financing, hunt down leadership, dismantle their networks, supply lines and we will destroy them.

President Barack Obama

Wrapping up a nine-day trip to Turkey and Asia, Obama also pressed Russian president Vladimir Putin to align himself with the U.S.-led coalition, noting that IS has been accused of bringing down a Russian passenger jet last month, killing 224 people. "He needs to go after the people who killed Russia’s citizens,” Obama said of Putin. The president spoke in Malaysia shortly before departing for Washington. Meanwhile, Syrian president Bashar al-Assad says his government’s troops are advancing on “nearly every front” thanks to Russian air strikes that began in September. In an interview aired on Sunday, he backed a political settlement to the crisis in his country but only after “at least a major defeat of the terrorists”.

This boy and… other children suffered and died and are being killed because of the Western policies in this world, in this region

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