U.S. Continues to Limit Airstrikes Against ISIS Camps

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President Obama said for the first time this week that U.S. and allied airstrikes are targeting ISIS training camps in Iraq and Syria, but new figures reveal only 20 camps were hit in recent months.

 

Since May, U.S. and allied air forces conducted 17 attacks hitting a total of 20 camps in Syria and Iraq, according to the U.S. military command in Iraq.

 

Critics in the Obama administration and U.S. military say ISIS has been operating more than 60 training camps since 2014 in areas of Syria and Iraq. The camps are said to be producing an estimated 1,000 fighters a month.

 

The officials voiced frustrations that ISIS training camps are not being vigorously struck.

 

“These camps give them a continuous, fresh flow fighters,” said one official, “and little is being done to destroy them.”

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Obama: Government 'upping our game' against the Islamic State

 

President Obama pledged Thursday that his government is quickly evolving to stop the "new phase" of terrorism threats against the United States, chiefly the risk of small but highly organized and motivated groups of radicalized people in America.

"We are in a new phase of terrorism, including lone actors and small groups of terrorists," Obama said at the National Counterterrorism Center.

"Because they are smaller, often self-initiating, self-motivating, they're harder to detect, and that makes it harder to prevent," he said. "But just as the threat evolves, so do we."

"We're constantly adapting, constantly improving, upping our game, getting better," he added.

 

http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/obama-govt-upping-our-game-against-isis/article/2578633

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President Obama pledged Thursday that his government is quickly evolving to stop the "new phase" of terrorism threats against the United States, chiefly the risk of small but highly organized and motivated groups of radicalized people in America.

 

 

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