US Senator Calls for Wider US Role in Campaign Against IS

U.S. Senator Lindsey Graham said the only way to end the gruesome beheadings by the Islamic State group is by degrading and destroying the insurgency, which has captured large swathes of Iraqi and Syrian territory. The latest beheading of a Japanese journalist by the IS group has renewed a national debate on Japan’s ability to defend itself. Graham, a member of the Senate Armed Services Committee, told a U.S. television audience Sunday on “Face the Nation” that President Obama has the...

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