Washington said countries in the Middle East had offered to join air strikes against Islamic State militants and Australia said it would send troops, but Britain held back even after the group beheaded a British hostage and threatened to kill another.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu called ISIS and Hamas “branches of the same poisonous tree” after ISIS released a video showing the beheading of a British aid worker.
U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Tex.) must be the gutsiest supporter of Israel in American history, if you believe media accounts of his actions at a recent Christian assembly.
Islamic State militants fighting in Iraq and Syria released a video on Saturday which purported to show the beheading of British aid worker David Haines.
The Republican leader of the U.S. House of Representatives voiced support on Thursday for President Barack Obama\’s expanded campaign against Islamic State militants, but members of his party questioned whether the plan was forceful enough.
U.S. warplanes carried out five strikes on Islamic State insurgents menacing Iraq\’s Haditha Dam on Sunday, witnesses and officials said, widening what President Barack Obama called a campaign to curb and ultimately defeat the jihadist movement.
Israel has provided satellite imagery and other intelligence in support of the U.S.-led aerial campaign against Islamic State in Iraq, a Western diplomat said on Monday.
President Barack Obama will explain to Americans and congressional leaders this week his plan to go on the offensive against Islamic State militants, who he said could eventually become a threat to the United States.
“Is there a sorrow greater than this?\” Rabbi Terry Bookman, senior rabbi at Temple Beth Am in Miami where I grew up, asked as he opened Friday\’s memorial service for slain journalist Steven Sotloff.
Israel said on Thursday it had prevented local media from reporting that slain U.S. journalist Steven Sotloff was also an Israeli citizen, in a bid to reduce the risk to him after he was seized by Islamist insurgents in Syria last year.
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