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US President Barack Obama admitted that the "lone wolf" terrorist attacks present a vexing new security challenge, even as he assured Americans that "ISIS" terrorist group can be defeated.

Obama capped a week in which he tried repeatedly to reassure the nervous Americans that his administration can neutralize the terror threat, with a Friday end-of-year press conference that only underscored the tough task ahead.

"It is very difficult for us to detect lone wolf plots," Obama acknowledged.

"This is a different kind of challenge than the sort that we had with an organization like al-Qaeda," he added.

Meanwhile, Obama is under intense pressure to quickly and decisively end a threat that may take years if not decades of military, security, diplomatic and economic effort to neutralize.

He further considered that part of the puzzle was to end the war in Syria that created fertile soil for "ISIS" to grow.

"Our view has been that you cannot bring peace to Syria, you cannot get an end to the civil war unless you have a government that is recognized as legitimate by a majority of that country."

Source: News Agencies, Edited by website team