War on terror

Trump calls for 'realism' in anti-terror fight

Likening the fight against terrorism to the Cold War and the battle against Nazism, Donald Trump pledged cooperation Monday with any country willing to help defeat the Islamic State and again called for tighter restrictions on immigration from Muslim countries.

"Today, we begin a conversation about how to make America safe again," Trump said during what aides billed as a major address on foreign policy and counter-terrorism.

In calling for a new brand of "foreign policy realism," the Republican nominee declared his opposition to "nation building" and other efforts to spread democracy in the Middle East, attacking the Obama administration -- particularly former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton -- for policies toward nations like Iraq, Iran, Libya, Syria, and Egypt.

Trump also blamed President Obama and Clinton for the rise of the Islamic State, the Middle-East-based extremist group also known as ISIS.

"The Obama-Clinton foreign policy unleashed ISIS (and) de-stabilized the Middle East," Trump told an invited audience gathered at Youngstown State University in Ohio, a key state in his election battle against his Democratic opponent in November.