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President Barack Obama admitted Sept. 28 that the United States underestimated the threat posed by ISIL in Syria, as warplanes pounded the oil sites that fund the jihadist group

Obama implored Middle Eastern nations to take the lead in addressing the conditions that have sparked the rise of extremists, including cutting off funding to terror groups

AGERPRES special correspondent, Doroteea Purcarea, reports: Prime Minister Victor Ponta is attending, on Wednesday, the opening of the UN General Assembly debates.

Obama said the coalition of Arab nations showed the US was not alone in combating the ISIL

President Barack Obama will seek to galvanize international support in the fight against climate change on Tuesday when he addresses the United Nations

U.S. President Barack Obama disclosed last week the much-awaited American strategy against ISIL, with the ultimate objective of 'destroying the extremist jihadists'

Americans marked the 13th anniversary of the September 11, 2001 attacks, as President Barack Obama vowed that the nation would never "give in to fear."

President Barack Obama said he will explain to Americans and congressional leaders this week his plan to "start going on some offense" against Islamic State militants, who he said could eventually become a threat to the United States.
   

Under a decision taken on the August 15 and published in the official gazette on Tuesday, Tirana will transfer 22 million rounds of AK-47 7.62 millimeter bullets, 15,000 hand grenades and 32,000 artillery shells of different calibers to Iraq.

Tirana also announced that it is donating 10,000 model-56 Kalashnikov automatic rifles to Afghanistan.

Police fired tear gas Monday in another night of unrest in a Missouri town where a white police officer shot and killed an unarmed black teenager, just hours after President Barack Obama called for calm.