CRI听力:Obama to Reveals Plans to Take on IS Group

US President Barack Obama is set to outline his plans for fighting the Islamic State militant group in a speech on Wednesday.

During an interview with NBC aired on Sunday, Obama said the US has the capacity to deal with the IS threat.

"Over the course of months, we are going to be able to, not just blunt the momentum of ISIL, we are going to systematically degrade their capabilities, we're going to shrink the territory that they control, and ultimately we're going to defeat them."

Obama also ruled out sending in US ground troops.

"But this is not going to be an announcement about U.S. ground troops. This is not the equivalent of the Iraq war. What this is is similar to the kinds of counterterrorism campaigns that we've been engaging in consistently over the last five, six, seven years."

His emerging strategy depends on the formation of a new government in Iraq, as well as cooperation and contributions from regional partners, including Saudi Arabia, Jordan, and Turkey.

The US president has just returned from a NATO summit in Wales, where the alliance agreed to take on the Islamic State group.