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 […]
BANGKOK—Japan’s government vowed not to give in to terrorism after Islamic State militants released a videotaped threat to kill two Japanese citizens held hostage. A man clad in black and speaking with a British accent said, in a video posted online Tuesday, that unless $200 million is paid to his group, two Japanese men will […]
WASHINGTON – Though U.S. and coalition airstrikes are destroying facilities and equipment controlled by the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant, the terrorist group ultimately will fail because the people it’s trying to control will reject its ideology, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff said in an interview broadcast today. Appearing on […]
The increased airstrikes and the tenacity of the Kurdish fighters on the ground in the Syrian city of Kobani has driven the ISIS fighters from the city according to reports coming out of that country this morning. ISIS fighters fled the city overnight and are now miles from the town where intense fighting between Kurdish […]