Obama to press Congress for action on Islamic State


  • World
  • Tuesday, 09 Sep 2014

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama, senior cabinet officials and his defence and intelligence chiefs will meet with U.S. lawmakers this week and next as the administration seeks support for an offensive against Islamic State militants.

Obama will deliver a speech to Americans on Wednesday to lay out his "game plan" to halt the Islamist group that has seized swathes of Syria and Iraq, as he tries to head off public concerns that the country could be moving toward another full-scale war.

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