--- title: Watch President Obama Speak About Fight Against ISIS description: Due to speak from the Pentagon canonical: https://time.com/3947077/watch-president-obama-speak-about-fight-against-isis/ author: TIME Video article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2015-07-06T19:58:53.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-02-22T08:59:55.406Z article:section: Politics og:title: Watch President Obama Speak About Fight Against ISIS og:description: Due to speak from the Pentagon og:url: https://time.com/3947077/watch-president-obama-speak-about-fight-against-isis/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Watch President Obama Speak About Fight Against ISIS twitter:description: Due to speak from the Pentagon twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Watch President Obama Speak About Fight Against ISIS by [TIME Video](https://time.com/author/time-video/) ## TIME Video Jul 6, 2015 7:58 PM UTC by [TIME Video](https://time.com/author/time-video/) ## TIME Video Jul 6, 2015 7:58 PM UTC President Obama visited the Pentagon Monday for a briefing on the fight against the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS), as the U.S. attempts to reverse advances made by the Islamist group in recent weeks. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3947077/watch-president-obama-speak-about-fight-against-isis/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3947077/watch-president-obama-speak-about-fight-against-isis/"},"headline":"Watch President Obama Speak About Fight Against ISIS","datePublished":"2015-07-06T19:58:53.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-22T08:59:55.406Z","description":"Due to speak from the Pentagon","url":"https://time.com/3947077/watch-president-obama-speak-about-fight-against-isis/","keywords":["Foreign Policy"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"TIME Video","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/time-video/"}],"articleSection":"Politics","image":[],"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/politics/","name":"Politics"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/foreign-policy/","name":"Foreign Policy"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3947077/watch-president-obama-speak-about-fight-against-isis/","name":"Watch President Obama Speak About Fight Against ISIS"}}]}] ```