In his trip to Asia next week, U.S. Deputy Secretary of State Antony Blinken is expected to discuss with Beijing and Tokyo ways they can help degrade and defeat the Islamic State extremists, a senior State Department official said. Blinken, a former deputy national security adviser to President Barack Obama, is to be received at […]
WASHINGTON—U.S. Senator Lindsey Graham said the only way to end the gruesome beheadings by the Islamic State group is by degrading and destroying the insurgency, which has captured large swathes of Iraqi and Syrian territory. The latest beheading of a Japanese journalist by the Islamic State group has renewed a national debate on Japan’s ability […]
Iraqi officials said Friday government forces have driven out Islamic State militants from the oil refinery town of Beiji, north of Baghdad. The Islamic jihadists had captured Beiji during their blitz across northern and western Iraq earlier this year. The town of Beiji is located on a highway leading to the key northern city of […]
The U.N. Security Council has condemned the beheading of British aid worker David Haines by Islamic State militants, calling it a “heinous and cowardly murder.” The Islamic State group posted a video Saturday showing the killing in the same manner as those depicting the beheadings of American journalists James Foley and Steven Sotloff. The Security […]