US President Barack Obama plans to set out his “game plan” against Islamic State militants in a speech

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President Obama told NBC TV that US would degrade IS, shrink its territory and also“defeat them”for sure he said.
Mr Obama was criticized last month when he disappointed the world when he said “we don’t have a strategy yet” when asked about IS during a brief interview.
     The US extended their operations on Sunday, carrying out air strikes on IS for the first time in western Iraq, to defend Iraqi troops at Haditha dam.
Speaking on NBC’s Meet the Press, Mr Obama said: “I’m preparing the country to make sure that we deal with a threat from ISIS.”
IS, also often referred to as ISIL or ISIS, has taken over large swathes of Iraq and Syria in recent months, declaring the land it holds a “caliphate”.
Mr Obama went on: “On Wednesday, saying, I’ll make a speech and describe what our game plan is going to be.
       ISIS fighters have taken a very large swathes of Iraq and Syria. Here they parade in Raqqa, Syria
He said he would “start going on some offense” against ISIS.
But the strategy was “not going to be an announcement about US ground troops”,added
He also said: “This is not the equivalent of the Iraq war. What this is, is similar to the kinds of counter-terrorism campaigns that we’ve been engaging in consistently over the last five, six, seven years ago.
           “I just want the American people to understand the nature of the threat and how we’re going to deal with it and to have confidence that we’ll be able to deal with it.”
President Obama said the strategy would not involve only  the US but would also be one pursued by an international coalition.     Iraqi forces have gained ground in the North with the help of US air strikes
He said: “We are going to be able to not just blunt the momentum of Isil. We are also going to systematically degrade their capabilities. We’re going to shrink the territory that they control. And ultimately we’re going to defeat them.”
       The interview was conducted on Saturday, shortly after Mr Obama returned from the NATO summit in Wales, where the grouping agreed to take on ISIS.
Mr Obama made his “no strategy” comment last month when he was asked if he needed Congress’s approval to “go into Syria”.
       Sunday’s four US air strikes were aimed at protecting Iraqi forces and Sunni tribesmen who are in control of Haditha dam.
The American air attacks, the first of their kind in Anbar province, signal that Washington has crossed a line that it itself drew.
       It has long had a standing request from the outgoing Iraqi government to use its air power against ISIS in all the areas. But until recently, it made it clear, it would only do that once a new, inclusive government is formed in Baghdad, with full Sunni representation.
That hasn’t yet happened, though intensive efforts are under way to produce a new cabinet in the coming days.
         Fighter and bomber aircraft destroyed five Humvees, one of the ISIS armed vehicle and an ISIS checkpoint, and also damaged an ISIS bunker, the US military said.
The US has carried out more than 130 air strikes since early August to support Iraqi and Kurdish forces fighting ISIS in Northern Iraq, but these happen to be the first in Anbar.
US Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel said: “If that dam would fall into ''Islamic State's'' hands or if that dam would be destroyed, the damage that would cause would be very significant.

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