Sep 02 Watch How should the U.S. respond to Steven Sotloff’s killing? By PBS News Hour For reaction, Judy Woodruff talks to Charles Sennott of The GroundTruth Project. Then, former National Security Council staff Lt. Col. Douglas Ollivant (Ret.), former Counterterrorism Official Daniel Benjamin and former State Department official Anne-Marie Slaughter discuss how the killing affects… Continue watching
Sep 02 Second American journalist, Steven Sotloff, killed by Islamic extremists By Larisa Epatko U.S. authorities have confirmed that an online video showing Islamic State militants killing American journalist Steven Sotloff is authentic. Continue reading
Aug 31 Trapped UN peacekeepers escape Islamist militants in Golan Heights By Carey Reed 40 United Nations peacekeepers from the Philippines escaped overnight after being surrounded since Thursday by Islamic militants in southern Syria, Reuters reports. Continue reading
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 Oxfam: Syrian neighbors can’t absorb growing refugee crisis alone By PBS News Hour Over 3 million Syrians have fled the country as refugees since the conflict began in March 2011, going to Lebanon, Jordan, Turkey and Iraq. And, according to aid workers, it’s getting worse. Jeffrey Brown speaks with Paul O’Brien of Oxfam… 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
Aug 29 Syrian refugees top 3 million, says U.N. agency By Larisa Epatko The number of Syrian refugees seeking safety in other parts of the world has surpassed 3 million, making it the “biggest humanitarian emergency of our era,” said Antonio Guterres, head of the U.N. refugee agency, on Friday. Continue reading
Aug 29 Perry criticizes Obama for ‘no strategy’ on Syria By Will Weissert, Nomaan Merchant, Associated Press Texas Gov. Rick Perry is wasting little time pouncing on President Barack Obama's "we don't have a strategy yet"comments about the violent militant faction attacking cities in Iraq,… Continue reading