ISIS

BEIRUT (AP) — Kurdish forces continue to battle Islamic State group fighters for control of a Syrian town near the Turkish border.

While President Obama continues to lay out plans about how to deal with ISIS, it's hard to fathom there are actually some Americans who support the terror group.

BRADLEY KLAPPER, Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — This week offers Congress its best chance to get answers about President Barack Obama's new Mideast counterterror strategy.

WASHINGTON (AP) — Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand says it's critically important that the United States strongly confront the insurgent Islamic State organization. The New York Democrat tells MSNBC she knows that won't be easy.

President Obama is expected to address the nation Wednesday about a multi-year plan to combat the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria according to a report by The New York Times.

U.S. intelligence officials have authenticated a video released Tuesday showing ISIS extremists beheading American freelance journalist Steven Sotloff. The beheading came two weeks after the murder of journalist James Foley by the same group.

An extremist militant group in Iraq has reportedly destroyed a significant historical site in the city of Mosul.

A representative of the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS) has told Turkish media that the group plans to seize the Saudi Arabian city of Arar before moving to ruin Islam’s holiest site. As quoted by the APA news service, ISIS member Abu Turab Al Mugaddasi reportedly said, “If Allah wills, we will kill those who worship stones in Mecca and destroy the Kaaba. People go to Mecca to touch the sto