Today, the United States and our Armed Forces continue to lead the global coalition in our mission to destroy the terrorist group ISIL. As I outlined in my speech to the nation last weekend, our strategy is moving forward with a great sense of urgency on four fronts -- hunting down and taking out these terrorists; training and equipping Iraqi and Syrian forces to fight ISIL on the ground; stopping ISIL's operations by disrupting their recruiting, financing and propaganda; and, finally, persistent diplomacy to end the Syrian civil war so that everyone can focus on destroying ISIL. 今天，美国及我们的武装部队继续领导全球联盟，执行摧毁恐怖组织ISIL的使命。正如我上周末向全国发表的讲话中所阐述的，我们的战略正以前所未有的紧迫感在四条战线上推进——追剿并消灭这些恐怖分子；培训和装备伊拉克与叙利亚部队，使其在地面打击ISIL；通过破坏ISIL的招募、融资和宣传来阻止其行动；最后，通过持续的外交努力结束叙利亚内战，以便各方能够集中精力摧毁ISIL。
I just had a chance to meet with my National Security Council as part of our regular effort to review and constantly strengthen our efforts. And I want to thank Secretary Carter, Chairman Dunford, and Vice Chairman Selva for hosting us and for their leadership of our men and women in uniform. We heard from General Austin, who is leading the military campaign in the region, as well as General Votel, whose Special Operations forces are playing a vital role in this fight. 我刚刚有机会与国家安全委员会举行了会议，这是我们定期审查并不断加强行动力度的工作的一部分。我要感谢卡特部长、邓福德主席和塞尔瓦副主席接待我们，以及他们对我们男女军人的领导。我们听取了奥斯汀将军的汇报，他正在该地区领导军事行动，还有沃特尔将军，他的特种作战部队在这场战斗中发挥着至关重要的作用。
I want to provide all of you a brief update on our progress against the ISIL core in Syria and Iraq, because as we squeeze its heart, we'll make it harder for ISIL to pump its terror and propaganda to the rest of the world. 我想向大家简要通报我们在叙利亚和伊拉克打击ISIL核心力量的进展情况，因为当我们挤压其心脏地带时，ISIL向世界其他地区输送恐怖和宣传就会变得更加困难。
This fall, even before the revolting attacks in Paris and San Bernardino, I ordered new actions to intensify our war against ISIL. These actions, including more firepower and Special Operations forces, are well underway. This continues to be a difficult fight. As I said before, ISIL is dug in, including in urban areas, and they hide behind civilians, using defenseless men, women and children as human shields. 今年秋天，甚至在巴黎和圣贝纳迪诺令人发指的袭击发生之前，我就已下令采取新的行动来加强我们对ISIL的战争。这些行动，包括增加火力和特种作战部队，正在顺利进行中。这仍然是一场艰苦的战斗。正如我之前所说，ISIL已经掘壕固守，包括在城市地区，他们躲在平民身后，将手无寸铁的男女老幼用作人盾。
So even as we're relentless, we have to be smart, targeting ISIL surgically, with precision. At the same time, our partners on the ground are rooting ISIL out, town by town, neighborhood by neighborhood, block by block. That is what this campaign is doing. 因此，即使我们坚持不懈，我们也必须精明行事，以精准的方式外科手术式地打击ISIL。与此同时，我们的地面合作伙伴正在逐镇、逐社区、逐街区地将ISIL清除出去。这就是这场行动正在做的事情。
We are hitting ISIL harder than ever. Coalition aircraft -- our fighters, bombers and drones -- have been increasing the pace of airstrikes -- nearly 9,000 as of today. Last month, in November, we dropped more bombs on ISIL targets than any other month since this campaign started. 我们正在以空前的力度打击ISIL。联盟的飞机——我们的战斗机、轰炸机和无人机——一直在加快空袭的节奏——截至今天已近九千架次。上个月，也就是十一月，我们投放在ISIL目标上的炸弹数量超过了这场行动开始以来的任何一个月。
We're also taking out ISIL leaders, commanders and killers, one by one. Since this spring, we've removed Abu Sayyaf, one of their top leaders; Haji Mutazz, ISIL's second-in command; Junaid Hussain, a top online recruiter; Mohamed Emwazi, who brutally murdered Americans and others; and in recent weeks, finance chief Abu Saleh; senior extortionist Abu Maryam; and weapons trafficker Abu Rahman al-Tunisi. The list goes on. 我们还在逐一清除ISIL的领导人、指挥官和杀手。今年春天以来，我们已经消灭了他们的最高领导人之一阿布·萨耶夫；ISIL的二号人物哈吉·穆塔兹；顶级在线招募者朱奈德·侯赛因；残忍谋杀美国人及其他人的穆罕默德·埃姆瓦齐；最近几周，还有财务主管阿布·萨利赫；高级勒索者阿布·玛丽亚姆；以及武器走私者阿布·拉赫曼·突尼斯。这样的例子不胜枚举。
We're going after ISIL from their stronghold right down -- right in downtown Raqqa, to Libya, where we took out Abu Nabil, the ISIL leader there. The point is, ISIL leaders cannot hide. And our next message to them is simple: You are next. 我们正在追击ISIL，从他们的据点——拉卡市中心——一直到利比亚，我们在那里消灭了当地的ISIL领导人阿布·纳比勒。关键是，ISIL的头目们无处可藏。我们给他们的下一个讯息很简单：下一个就是你们。
Every day, we destroy as well more of ISIL's forces -- their fighting positions, bunkers and staging areas; their heavy weapons, bomb-making factories, compounds and training camps. In many places, ISIL has lost its freedom of maneuver, because they know if they mass their forces, we will wipe them out. In fact, since the summer, ISIL has not had a single successful major offensive operation on the ground in either Syria or Iraq. 每天，我们都在摧毁更多的ISIL武装——他们的战斗阵地、掩体和集结地；他们的重型武器、炸弹制造厂、营地和训练中心。在许多地方，ISIL已经失去了机动自由，因为他们知道如果集结兵力，我们就会将其消灭。事实上，自夏天以来，ISIL在叙利亚或伊拉克的地面上都没有取得过一次成功的重大进攻行动。
In recent weeks, we've unleashed a new wave of strikes on their lifeline, their oil infrastructure, destroying hundreds of their tanker trucks, wells and refineries. And we're going to keep on hammering those. 最近几周，我们对他们的生命线——石油基础设施——发动了新一轮打击，摧毁了数百辆油罐车、油井和炼油厂。我们将继续猛烈打击这些目标。
ISIL also continues to lose territory in Iraq. ISIL had already lost across Kirkuk province and at Tikrit. More recently, ISIL lost at Sinjar, losing a strategic highway. ISIL lost at Baiji, with its oil refinery. We saw the daring raid supported by our Special Forces, which rescued dozens of prisoners from ISIL, and in which Master Sergeant Joshua Wheeler made the ultimate sacrifice. ISIL在伊拉克也不断丧失领土。ISIL已经在基尔库克省和提克里特失守。最近，ISIL在辛贾尔失利，失去了一条战略公路。ISIL在拜吉失守，丢掉了那里的炼油厂。我们见证了在我们特种部队支援下实施的一次大胆突袭，从ISIL手中解救了数十名囚犯，在这次行动中，约书亚·惠勒军士长献出了宝贵的生命。
So far, ISIL has lost about 40 percent of the populated areas it once controlled in Iraq. And it will lose more. Iraqi forces are now fighting their way deeper into Ramadi. They're working to encircle Fallujah and cut off ISIL supply routes into Mosul. Again, these are urban areas where ISIL is entrenched. Our partners on the ground face a very tough fight ahead, and we're going to continue to back them up with the support that they need to ultimately clear ISIL from Iraq. 到目前为止，ISIL已经失去了其曾经控制的伊拉克人口聚居区的约百分之四十。而且它还会失去更多。伊拉克部队目前正在向拉马迪深处推进。他们正在努力包围费卢杰，并切断ISIL通往摩苏尔的补给线。同样，这些都是ISIL盘踞的城市地区。我们的地面合作伙伴面临着一场非常艰苦的战斗，我们将继续为他们提供所需的支持，以最终将ISIL从伊拉克清除出去。
ISIL also continues to lose territory in Syria. We continue to step up our air support and supplies to local forces -- Syrian Kurds, Arabs, Christians, Turkmen -- and they're having success. After routing ISIL at Kobani and Tal Abyad, they've pushed ISIL back from almost across the entire border region with Turkey, and we're working with Turkey to seal the rest. ISIL在叙利亚也不断丧失领土。我们继续加强对当地部队——叙利亚库尔德人、阿拉伯人、基督徒、土库曼人——的空中支援和物资供应，他们正在取得成功。在科巴尼和泰勒艾卜耶德击溃ISIL之后，他们已将ISIL从几乎整个土耳其边境地区击退，我们正在与土耳其合作封锁其余边境。
ISIL has lost thousands of square miles of territory it once controlled in Syria -- and it will lose more. The Special Forces that I ordered to Syria have begun supporting local forces as they push south, cut off supply lines and tighten the squeeze on Raqqa. ISIL已经失去了其曾经控制的数千平方英里的叙利亚领土——而且还会失去更多。我下令派驻叙利亚的特种部队已经开始支援当地部队，他们正向南推进，切断补给线，并加紧对拉卡的包围。
Meanwhile, more people are seeing ISIL for the thugs and the thieves and the killers that they are. We've seen instances of ISIL fighters defecting. Others who've tried to escape have been executed. And ISIL's reign of brutality and extortion continues to repel local populations and help fuel the refugee crisis. "So many people are migrating," said one Syrian refugee. ISIL, she said, will "end up all alone." 与此同时，越来越多的人看清了ISIL的真面目——暴徒、窃贼和杀手。我们已经看到了ISIL武装人员叛逃的事例。其他试图逃跑的人则被处决。ISIL的残暴和勒索统治继续令当地民众反感，并加剧了难民危机。"太多人在逃离，"一名叙利亚难民说。她说，ISIL终将"落得孤家寡人的下场"。
All this said, we recognize that progress needs to keep coming faster. No one knows that more than the countless Syrians and Iraqis living every day under ISIL's terror, as well as the families in San Bernardino and Paris and elsewhere who are grieving the loss of their loved ones. Just as the United States is doing more in this fight -- just as our allies France, Germany, and the United Kingdom, Australia and Italy are doing more -- so must others. 尽管如此，我们认识到进展需要更快地到来。没有人比无数每天生活在ISIL恐怖之下的叙利亚人和伊拉克人，以及圣贝纳迪诺、巴黎和其他地方正在哀悼失去亲人的家庭更清楚这一点。正如美国正在这场战斗中加大力度——正如我们的盟友法国、德国、英国、澳大利亚和意大利正在加大力度一样——其他国家也必须这样做。
And that's why I've asked Secretary Carter to go to the Middle East -- he'll depart right after this press briefing -- to work with our coalition partners on securing more military contributions to this fight. On the diplomatic front, Secretary Kerry will be in Russia tomorrow as we continue to work, as part of the Vienna process, to end the Syrian civil war. Meanwhile, here at home, the Department of Homeland Security is updating its alert system to help the American people stay vigilant and safe. 正因为如此，我已要求卡特部长前往中东——他将在这次新闻发布会后立即出发——与我们的联盟伙伴合作，争取为这场战斗提供更多的军事贡献。在外交方面，克里部长明天将前往俄罗斯，我们将继续作为维也纳进程的一部分，努力结束叙利亚内战。与此同时，在国内，国土安全部正在更新其警报系统，以帮助美国人民保持警惕和安全。
And as always, our extraordinary men and women in uniform continue to put their lives on the line -- in this campaign and around the world -- to keep the rest of us safe. This holiday season, many of our troops are once again far from their families. And as your Commander-in-Chief, on behalf of the American people, we want to say thank you. We are grateful, and we are proud for everything that you do. Because of you, the America that we know and love and cherish is leading the world in this fight. 一如既往，我们杰出的男女军人继续冒着生命危险——在这场行动中以及在世界各地——保护我们其他人的安全。在这个节日季，我们的许多部队再次远离家人。作为你们的三军统帅，我代表美国人民，想对你们说一声谢谢。我们心存感激，我们为你们所做的一切感到骄傲。因为你们，我们所熟知、热爱和珍视的美国正在领导世界进行这场战斗。
Because of you, I am confident that we are going to prevail. 因为你们，我有信心我们终将获胜。
Thank you very much, everybody. 非常感谢大家。