Friday, April 19, 2024

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Obama: Iraqis and Syrians must expel ISIL

US President Barack Obama
US President Barack Obama

(IraqiNews.com) On Wednesday US President Barack Obama called on Iraqi and Syrian people to expel the organization of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant from the two countries.

Obama said, in a televised speech on the killing of the American journalist, James Foley and followed up by IraqiNews.com, that “the Iraqi people who support us must expel the terrorists of the Islamic state,” adding that “the Syrians also have to expel them because they shouldn’t live in the shadow of terrorists”.

Obama added “ISIL claims to fight against America and the West when in the fact, they are terrorizing their neighbors”, stressing that, “We will continue to confront terrorism and replace it with hope.”

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