US Broadens Its Strategy to Defeat Terrorism; Fights Radical Islamist Terror Groups Like IS

The U.S. renewed its call to win the war on terrorism yesterday, unveiling a new counterterrorism strategy that promises to confront a complex and expanding threat by taking whatever steps are deemed necessary, the VOA News website reports today (October 5, 2018).

"We are a nation at war," the strategy proclaims. "And it is a war that the United States will win."

National Security Adviser John Bolton told reporters at the White House, "It has long been the president's view that without recognizing that we're in an ideological struggle, we can't properly address the terror threat."

Bolton added that the primary terrorist threat to the U.S. came from "radical Islamist terrorist groups" like Islamic State (IS) and al-Qaida.