Sep 03 Watch Ukraine, Syria, Iraq and Islamic State -- What should Obama do? By PBS News Hour Continue watching
Sep 03 Bosnian police arrest 16 suspected Islamic militants in targeted raids By Ayan Sheikh Bosnian police have arrested 16 people suspected of recruiting, financing and fighting for Islamic State, IS, a radical militant group formerly known as ISIS in Iraq and Syria. Continue reading
Sep 03 Beheadings won't intimidate U.S., Obama says By Julie Pace, Associated Press Obama still did not give a timeline for deciding on a strategy to go after the extremist group's operations in Syria. "It's going to take time for us to be able to roll them back," the president said at a… Continue reading
Sep 02 350 more troops sent to protect the American Embassy in Baghdad By Associated Press President Barack Obama approved the additional troops for protection of American personnel following a request by the State Department and a review and recommendation by the Defense Department, the White House said in a statement. Continue reading
Sep 02 Watch Islamic State declares beheading of U.S. reporter Steven Sotloff By PBS News Hour In a gruesome video, Islamic State radicals purportedly beheaded Steven Sotloff -- a 31-year-old American freelancer who went missing in Syria last year. In the video posted on Aug. 19 of the beheading of James Foley, the militant group warned… Continue watching
Aug 29 Watch Shields and Brooks on Islamic State as 'cancer,' Crist's campaign By PBS News Hour Syndicated columnist Mark Shields and New York Times columnist David Brooks join Hari Sreenivasan to discuss the week’s top news, including the threat of the Islamic State, the struggle to unify allies in the Mideast, the prospects of immigration reform… Continue watching
Aug 29 Watch 8:37 U.S. faces changing alliances and rifts in Middle East as it seeks to form coalition By PBS News Hour Relationships in the Middle East have changed drastically since the U.S. occupation in Iraq. Now, as Secretary of State John Kerry attempts to bridge gaps between potential allies against the Islamic State, new tensions have arisen. Jeffrey Brown speaks with… Continue watching
Aug 29 Watch Kerry tasked with unifying Mideast allies against Islamic State By PBS News Hour Secretary of State John Kerry will travel to the Mideast to work on building a coalition of allies to oppose the Islamic State group. But the regional conflicts that cross nations and factions are likely to complicate the effort. Hari… Continue watching
Aug 29 Who will help the U.S. battle the Islamic State in Syria? By Bradley Klapper, Associated Press In the last year-and-a-half, Islamic State extremists have fought the Syrian army, Hezbollah and Iranian forces. They've clashed with al-Qaida's local affiliate, routed Iraq's army and pushed back Kurdish peshmerga fighters. American airstrikes in Iraq have recently caused somewhat of… Continue reading
Aug 29 U.S. officials fear radicalized citizens will carry out lone-wolf terror plots By Ken Dilanian, Bradley Klapper, Associated Press The Obama administration has offered a wide range of assessments of the threat to U.S. national security posed by the extremists who say they've established a caliphate, or Islamic state, in an area straddling eastern Syrian and northern and western… Continue reading