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The United States says other countries are willing to launch air strikes in Syria against Islamic State militants and its U.N. ambassador predicted on Sunday that the country would not conduct the strikes alone.
Washington is trying to build an international military, political and financial coalition to defeat the radical Sunni Muslim group that has seized swathes of Iraq and Syria and proclaimed a caliphate in the heart of the Middle East.
U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Samantha Power on CBS' "Face the Nation" highlighted U.S. efforts to build a coalition against Islamic State, adding that the American people support Obama's policy in the fight.
"The strategy that the President has laid out has the overwhelming support of the American people, even after 10 years of war. So I think we are presenting the strategy in a manner that the American people understand is in our interests," Power said.
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