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Obama, US Security Advisers to Discuss Anti-ISIL Fight Monday

© AP Photo / Susan WalshPresident Barack Obama speaks in the Roosevelt Room of the White House in Washington, Wednesday, Nov. 25, 2015, to brief the public on the nation's homeland security posture heading into the holiday season, following meeting with his national security team
President Barack Obama speaks in the Roosevelt Room of the White House in Washington, Wednesday, Nov. 25, 2015, to brief the public on the nation's homeland security posture heading into the holiday season, following meeting with his national security team - Sputnik International
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US President Barack Obama will chair on Monday a counterterrorism meeting with his top national security advisers about Washington’s anti-Islamic State (ISIL or its Arabic name Daesh) extremist group campaign.

MOSCOW (Sputnik) — During the meeting the National Security Council will update the president on the campaign "to degrade and destroy that terrorist organization," White House spokesman Josh Earnest said on Friday.

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The US president will deliver a statement following the meeting.

The meeting will come in the wake of an Daesh-related terrorist attack in San Bernardino, California, on December 2, when 14 people were fatally shot by a couple believed to have been radicalized.

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Earlier in December, the Pentagon said it was considering a plan to build military bases in the Middle East and Africa to fight Daesh, a terrorist organization outlawed in many countries, including Russia.

Obama previously met with the national security team to discuss the US efforts to counter ISIL in July.

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