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On Friday, the second day of the biennial Nuclear Security Summit, President Obama told the press "the good news" that ISIS is losing ground on the battlefield.
“In Syria and Iraq, ISIL continues to lose ground,” said Obama. “That’s the good news.”
“Our coalition continues to take out its leaders, including those planning external terrorist attacks. They are losing their oil infrastructure, they are losing their revenues, morale is suffering. We believe that the flow of foreign fighters into Syria and Iraq has slowed…”
He added that we can expect ISIS to lash out “elsewhere” the more its forces are "squeezed in Syria and Iraq."
“As ISIL is squeezed in Syria and Iraq, we can anticipate it lashing out elsewhere as we’ve seen most recently and tragically in countries from Turkey to Brussels,” said Obama.
He said that while progress has been made in defeating and destroying ISIS on the battlefield, there remains much more to be done, including stepping up intelligence sharing between countries around the world and ensuring terrorists do not have access to nuclear resources.
“We all have a role to play,” he said. “We’re all going to do have to do more when it comes to intelligence sharing. We simply cannot afford to have critical intelligence not being shared as needed, whether between governments or within governments.”
Watch a clip from the President's remarks below.