President Obama Is Preparing His Special Address To The Nation On Combating The Islamic State

Obama Is Ready To Authorize Airstrikes Against ISIS In Syria WITHOUT Congress As He Prepares To Tell The Nation In Prime Time Address How He Will Destroy Jihadists -- Daily Mail

* White House official confirmed air strikes would feature in the plan
* Air Force has hit ISIS targets in Iraq – but has not yet struck Syria
* Obama will announce a long-awaited strategy in TV appearance Wednesday night
* He may ask for $500 million to arm rebels in Syria, but plans to act on other parts of his plan, including airstrikes there, even if Congress disapproves
* Rattling war sabers, former VP Dick Cheney warned the GOP on Tuesday that they need to push back against Obama's Pentagon budget cuts

President Obama is poised to launch new airstrikes against the Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham (ISIS) in Syria as part of efforts to combat the militant group terrorizing the Middle East, according to a White House official. And he's prepared to move ahead without any 'buy-in' from Congress.

Obama is preparing for a prime-time televised speech in which he will spell out a long-awaited strategy to confront ISIS, a brutal terror network that has captured huge swathes of Iraq and Syria and published depraved videos showing its fighters beheading American journalists.

The United States military has already launched targeted strikes against the group's positions in Iraq, but has yet to strike at their strongholds in Syria, where the extremists are also fighting soldiers from the regime of Syrian president Bashar al-Assad.

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