Obama's 2016 Year Plan - Destroy Islamic State

US President Barack Obama at a press conference on Friday, which was the last for him in the outgoing year, promised destroy the Islamic State in 2016 year.

“We still have unfinished business,” said Obama, for whom next year will be his last as head of state, “and I expect to spend every day and every minute I have left as president.”

The American president said that coalition troops will oust Islamic State militants from their positions, destroy their infrastructure and funding routes. According to Obama, the Syrian and Iraqi militaries fighting terrorists on the ground need help from the United States and allies.

“There has been obvious progress, but they will still be dangerous,” CNN's Obama words. — If something happens anywhere in the world, people can say that the words about progress are not true. However, in any battle, in any confrontation, despite this or that progress, danger remains.”

Obama has once again declared that Syrian President Bashar Assad has lost legitimacy in the eyes of the majority of his fellow citizens and should leave the post of head of stateto stop the bloodshed.

According to Obama, the clock hands can not be transferred back, but now there is an opportunity to find a political transitional solution to the Syrian crisis. The departure of Assad, in his opinion, will open the way for the Syrians to a future without inter-religious contradictions.

The Russian authorities, as is well known, support Assad and, according to the American side, Russian aviation is attacking, among other things, the Syrian opposition.

Russian President Vladimir Putin held a press conference a day earlier, said that no one has the right to “impose” their point of view regarding who should lead and where. According to Putin, the decision about their future should be determined “only by the Syrian people.”

Communicating with Russian and foreign journalists, Putin, as Forum reported, gave High valued billionaire Donald Trump, who, in his opinion, is the “absolute leader of the presidential race.”