Page 7 - Day Isis News Today : Breaking News, Live Updates & Top Stories | Vimarsana
CNN CNN Newsroom February 7, 2015 20:33:30
archive.org - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from archive.org Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20151115:19:39:45
comparemela.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from comparemela.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
explain. reporter: isis has always been an incredibly ambitious organization. i think what we re seeing right now is an evolution of isis. one very senior expert in this country described it to me like this. isis started out establishing its own base, consolidating its support at home, declaring a caliphate in iraq and syria. then it moved to phase two, exporting all of its branches mostly into the islamic world, mostly into places where the arab spring has failed. now we re seeing phase three. it s moving international, getting more sophisticated claiming responsibility for downing the russian plane, the bombing in beirut. stage four would see isis moving even further west trying to carry out an attack in the united states. yes, u.s. counterterrorism officials have been under estimating isis. they never thought it had this kind of capability. when paris first happened, u.s.
mr. rhodes, welcome to meet the press. good to be with you, chuck. let me start with french president hollande called this an act of war. does the president concur that this was an act of war and does that change america s footing? we absolutely agree that this was an act of war, and our hearts go out to the people of paris who suffered this terrible attack. the fact is, chuck, we ve been at war with isil for some time, over more than a year now we ve conducted thousands of air strikes. we provide arms to forces who are fighting them on the ground, but this is going to be a long-term campaign to disrupt and ultimately defeat isil and we re going to have to continue to redouble our efforts in partnership with allies like france. you know a year ago president obama said isis could not be something was something that could not be contained and in an interview days before these attacks, he said isis had been contained. can you say that they have been contained in iraq and syria