The US seeks to destroy the metastasizing Islamic State, President Barack Obama said from Eastern Europe on Wednesday, reacting angrily to the murder of a second American citizen at its hands in two weeks.
The killers of journalists James Foley and Steven Sotloff taking refuge in Syria will be held accountable, “no matter how long it takes,” US Secretary of State John Kerry echoed from Washington, calling Sotloff’s murder an act of evil.
The public comments from both Kerry and Obama suggest the scope of America’s mission against Islamic State, the terrorist Islamist group, has now been broadened, as the president warned that his objective is no longer limited to the protection of US assets and personnel in the Iraqi cities of Arbil and Baghdad.
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