Republican president candidates: We'll take on ISIS

Washington: Top US Republican presidential aspirants have vowed to take on the dreaded Islamic State if elected in the November elections, underlining that “the caliphate of ISIS militant group has to be destroyed”.

“Look, the threat we face from ISIS is unprecedented. There has never been a jihadist group like this. They have affiliates in over a dozen countries now,” said Senator Marco Rubio at participating in the Fox News-hosted Republican presidential debate.

“It’s hate action. They blow people up. Look at the attack they inspired in Philadelphia, that the White House still refuses to link to terror, where a guy basically shot a police officer three times,” he said.

“When I am president of the US , if there is some place in this country where radical jihadists are planning to attack the United States, we will go after them wherever they are, and if we capture them alive, they are going to Guantanamo,” Rubio said.