Clinton calls for U.S. to ‘intensify’ fight against Daesh

The Spanish government followed suit previous year. The exclusion of the Sunni spawned Sunni-led armed groups like the Islamic State. Civil wars are raging in all of them. He met Osama bin Laden there. “The truth is that this link exists because the inhabitants of areas in Iraq and Syria flee because they are martyred (tormented) by the very same people we are attacking today”. “The costs of inaction have accumulated, and we can’t undo the damage of the past four years”. Islamic State claimed credit for the bombing there, too, which killed at least 42 people and maimed 239 more. A case in point: In 2008, back when it was called al Qaeda in Iraq, the group placed a ban on women purchasing cucumbers.

Swedish Prime Minister Stefan Lofven summed up the politically supportive but cautious line of many European Union partners when he told TT news agency: “We are not in war, but we will stand with France and the European Union”.

It is also more complicated.

Jennings Heilig of Abingdon, Va., wrote, “To use their name for their organization lends credibility to their claims of a caliphate”. It’s a diversion “from what’s really going on”.

Abaaoud is believed to have been entrusted with starting an Islamic State campaign of attacks in Europe, but his earliest attempts failed, including an attack on a Paris-bound train that was stopped when passengers overpowered the gunman.

“In doing so, it has funded and equipped the Islamist extremist forces who are backed by Saudi Arabia and its Gulf allies”.

And Turkey’s attention is focused mainly on its domestic Kurdish problem and on the perceived threat posed by the emergence of an autonomous Kurdish enclave along its border in northern Syria. That may be because it is commonly used by his counterparts overseas, say analysts.

Second, and more importantly, members enjoy the prestige bestowed by a title putting it on par with legitimately recognized nations like the United States of America, France, and others in the crosshairs of this radical group.

Hollande had already announced on Monday an increase in strikes on Syria.

The group often refers to themselves as the Islamic State as this encapsulates their overall ambition, especially considering ISIS operates or has affiliates in other parts of the world, including North Africa and South Asia.

“The Islamic State can be degraded by air power, but in the end someone has to provide the infantry that goes in and takes Mosul and Raqqa and restores governance and rule of law, and I don’t see anyone offering that”.

The gains reflect a newly concerted effort to coordinate efforts among the diverse local forces fighting on the ground in order to pressure the Islamic State in multiple places at the same time, said Col. Steve Warren, spokesman for the U.S.-led coalition against the Islamic State. However one may call them, all of us can agree that they are a threat to not only the stability of the Middle East but to global peace. “We need to maintain our typical position – more soft power than hard power”, Renzi said. The emphasis was, however, on Paris, as it was elsewhere in the US media. Indeed, a few Muslim news outlets even refuse to show or reproduce the group’s flag, which includes the Islamic declaration of faith, because they find the use of Islamic language in this context to be almost blasphemous.

Likewise in Iraq, Shiite militias and Iraqi Kurds have made most of the gains so far. The Arabic word “Daesh” apparently can be taken as a play on words. The three-to-five-year timeline for defeating the Islamic State offered by the administration when airstrikes were launched last year is still on track, he said.

NPR did cover the Beirut story, on Morning Edition, All Things Considered and online, and there were numerous references to the Lebanon attacks scattered throughout the Paris coverage.

US Secretary of State John Kerry has also used the term to describe Islamic State, whilst hacker group Anonymous used it while promising to “wage war” on the extremists.