--- description: President Obama addresses the U.N. General Assembly days after the U.S. and five Arab nations began strikes against ISIS targets in Syria title: Watch Live: President Obama Addresses the U.N. General Assembly image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt6f35fe9dda161868/6986a512e53abaa3e64d4955/obama2.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  * [U.S.](/section/us/) ## U.S. Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close * [diplomacy](/tag/diplomacy/) ## diplomacy Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close # Watch Live: Obama Addresses the U.N. General Assembly by [TIME Staff](/author/time-staff/) ## TIME Staff Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Sep 24, 2014 2:14 PM CUT  President Barack Obama speaks during the 69th Session of the UN General Assembly at the United Nations in New York on Sept. 24, 2014. President Barack Obama speaks during the 69th Session of the UN General Assembly at the United Nations in New York on Sept. 24, 2014.Jewel Samad—AFP/Getty Images by [TIME Staff](/author/time-staff/) ## TIME Staff Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Sep 24, 2014 2:14 PM CUT President Barack Obama addresses the United Nations General Assembly in New York on Wednesday, days after the U.S. joined forces with five Arab nations to begin conducting air strikes in Syria against targets of the militant group Islamic State of Iraq and Greater Syria ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3425241/watch-live-obama-addresses-the-u-n-general-assembly/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3425241/watch-live-obama-addresses-the-u-n-general-assembly/"},"headline":"Watch Live: Obama Addresses the U.N. General Assembly","datePublished":"2014-09-24T14:14:18.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-21T10:22:53.416Z","description":"Days after the U.S. and five Arab nations began air strikes against ISIS","url":"https://time.com/3425241/watch-live-obama-addresses-the-u-n-general-assembly/","keywords":["diplomacy"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt6f35fe9dda161868/6986a512e53abaa3e64d4955/obama2.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"TIME Staff","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/time-staff/"}],"articleSection":"U.S.","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt6f35fe9dda161868/6986a512e53abaa3e64d4955/obama2.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"UN-GENERAL ASSEMBLY-US-OBAMA","caption":"UN-GENERAL ASSEMBLY-US-OBAMA","creditText":"Jewel Samad—AFP/Getty Images","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/us/","name":"U.S."}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/diplomacy/","name":"diplomacy"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3425241/watch-live-obama-addresses-the-u-n-general-assembly/","name":"Watch Live: Obama Addresses the U.N. General Assembly"}}]}] ```