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DCPD-201600509 - The President's News Conference at the Pentagon in Arlington, Virginia

Summary

Category: Budget and Presidential Materials

Collection: Compilation of Presidential Documents

Publisher: Office of the Federal Register, National Archives and Records Administration

Event Date: August 4, 2016

President: Barack H. Obama

Document Categories: Interviews With the News Media : News conference

Subjects: Afghanistan : U.S. military forces :: Deployment
Armed Forces, U.S. : Servicemembers :: Service and dedication
Communications : Extremist messaging on social media, efforts to counter
Communications : News media, Presidential interviews
Congress : Bipartisanship
Defense and national security : Hostage recovery policy
Defense and national security : Intelligence
Defense, Department of : Joint Chiefs of Staff
Defense, Department of : Secretary
Diseases : Zika epidemic, domestic response and containment efforts
Diseases : Zika virus in Western Hemisphere, containment and prevention efforts
Drug abuse and trafficking : Addiction treatment and reduction efforts
Elections : 2016 Presidential and congressional elections
Elections : Voter participation
Florida : Orlando :: Terrorist attack
Florida : Zika virus, reported cases
France : Terrorist attack in Nice
Health and Human Services, Department of : Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Health and Human Services, Department of : National Institutes of Health
Health and medical care : Research and development
Iran : Diplomatic relations with U.S.
Iran : International and U.S. sanctions
Iran : Minister of Foreign Affairs
Iran : Nuclear program, Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action
Iraq : Insurgency and terrorist attacks
Iraq : Iraqi military and security forces
Iraq : Security cooperation with U.S.
Justice, Department of : Pardon Attorney, U.S.
Law enforcement and crime : Commutations and pardons
Law enforcement and crime : Criminal justice system, reform efforts
Libya : Reconciliation efforts
Middle East : Political unrest and violence
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North Atlantic Treaty Organization
Pakistan : Federally Administered Tribal Areas, suspected terrorist safe havens
Russia : President
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Russia : Syria, role
State, Department of : Secretary
Syria : Civil war and sectarian conflict
Syria : President
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Syria : Relations with U.S.
Syria : U.S. and coalition airstrikes
Terrorism : Al Qaida terrorist organization
Terrorism : Counterterrorism efforts
Terrorism : Global threat
Terrorism : Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) terrorist organization
Terrorism : September 11, 2001, attacks
Virginia : President's visits
White House Office : Assistants to the President :: Press Secretary
White House Office : Assistants to the President :: White House Counsel

Names: Abedini, Saeed; Asad, Bashar al-; Carter, Ashton B.; Clinton, Hillary Rodham; Dunford, Joseph F., Jr.; Earnest, Joshua R.; Hekmati, Amir; Horton, Willie; Kerry, John F.; Khosravi- Roodsari, Nosratollah; Putin, Vladimir Vladimirovich; Rezaian, Jason; Sarfo, Harry; Trevithick, Matthew; Trump, Donald J.; Zarif-Khonsari, Mohammad Javad .

Locations: Arlington, VA

Notes: The President's news conference began at 4:49 p.m. in the briefing room. In his remarks, the President referred to Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Joseph F. Dunford, Jr., USMC; Basim Muhammad Ahmad Sultan al-Bajari and Hatim Talib al-Hamduni, senior ISIS commanders who were killed in a U.S. airstrike in Mosul, Iraq, on June 25; Tarkhan Tayumurazovich Batirashvili, an ISIL senior leader known as Omar al-Shishani; President Bashar al-Asad of Syria; Umar Khalifa, a leader of the Tariq Gidar Group also known as Khalifa Omar Mansoor who was killed in a U.S. airstrike in Nangarhar Province, Afghanistan, on July 9; Democratic Presidential nominee Hillary Rodham Clinton; Jason Rezaian, Amir Hekmati, Saeed Abedini, Nosratollah Khosravi-Roodsari, and Matthew Trevithick, U.S. citizens released from Iranian custody in January; White House Press Secretary Joshua R. Earnest; Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif-Khonsari of Iran; Harry Sarfo, a former member of ISIL serving a 3-year prison sentence in Bremen, Germany, on terrorism charges; Willie Horton, a convicted felon who was sentenced for crimes committed during a weekend furlough program in Massachusetts in 1986; Acting U.S. Pardon Attorney Robert A. Zauzmer; and President Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin of Russia. He also referred to the Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA) of Pakistan.