President Obama sought to reassure the nation after the terror attacks over the weekend — but didn’t specifically call the incidents in Manhattan and New Jersey terrorism.

“We’ve seen what was apparently a pipe bomb go off in New Jersey, in Seaside Park, where it could have seriously injured our US Marines and spectators who were there for a race. The bombing in the Chelsea neighborhood here in New York injured more than two dozen people,” Obama said, recounting attacks believed to have been carried by Ahmad Khan Rahami, who was captured Monday morning.

Obama offered prayers for those who have been injured and praised police in New York City and New Jersey.

The president said “the investigation is moving rapidly” but didn’t offer more details — and refrained from commenting on the wannabe killer’s motivations.

In a brief statement to the press, Obama did mention another attack — the stabbings over the weekend in St. Cloud, Minnesota — and this time he did comment on the motivation for that incident.

“At this point we see no connection between [the Minnesota] incident and what happened here in New York and New Jersey,” Obama said, speaking in New York.

“The FBI is investigating the Minnesota incident as a potential act of terrorism. We will direct the full resources of the federal government to make sure that the investigation goes forward aggressively,” he added.

The president reassured the nation that “our counter-terrorism and law enforcement professionals at every level, federal, state and local, are working together, around the clock to prevent attacks and to keep us safe.”

Then, without directly connecting the weekend attacks to ISIS, Obama made some general remarks about defeating the growing terror group.

“We will continue to lead the global coalition in the fight that ISIL, which is instigating a lot of people over the internet to carry out attacks, we are going to continue to go after them, we’re going to take out their leaders, we’re going to take out their infrastructure. They are continuing to lose ground in Iraq and in Syria,” he said.

“As we take away more of their territory, it exposes ISIL as the failed cause that it is and it helps to undermine their ideology which over time will make it harder for them to recruit and inspire people to violence.”