Obama: 'Reject Cancer of Violent Extremism'

President Barack Obama on Wednesday called on the world "to join him in an effort to degrade and ultimately destroy" Islamic State militants. Addressing the U.N. General Assembly in New York, he highlighted efforts to build an international coalition to combat the group that has taken over large areas in Syria and Iraq (full text of speech here). “This group has terrorized all who they come across in Iraq and Syria," he said. "Mothers, sisters and...

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