Barack Obama promised to destroy the Islamic State. VIDEO

At a press conference in Malaysia, US President Barack Obama promised to destroy the Islamic State terrorist group. This is reported by the TV channel RBC.

“We will destroy them. We will return the territories where they settled, stop their financing, track down their leaders, block the supply of weapons to them, and we will destroy them, ”the American leader said.

According to the agency ReutersObama also believes that “it would be useful” if Russia sent its air strikes exclusively on the Islamic State. He urged Moscow to agree on the need to remove Bashar Assad from the post of president of Syria.

After the conference, Obama answered questions from journalists. Including the president commented on the investigation of the crash of the Russian aircraft in Egypt, the responsibility for which took the group "Islamic State".

"The Russian leadership should target specifically the people who killed Russian citizens," Obama said.

The Forum already wrote that Russian aviation in Syria began military operation 30 September. Her goal was declared fighting terroristsas well as the bombing of their positions. After the start of the bombing, many Western countries declared that Russian planes bombed the positions of opponents of the Syrian president. Bashar al-Assad, including the so-called "moderate opposition".

Moscow October 1 asked Washington to present evidence that the Russian air force strikes in Syria are not on the positions of the "Islamic State".

“Once again, on the website of the Ministry of Defense everything is explained. There was talk of the fact that some civilians had already suffered as a result of these blows, such data are unknown to us. We are very careful to ensure that these pinpoint strikes are pinpoint, so that the goal is exclusively the positions, objects, and armament of terrorist groups, ”said Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov.