Marco Rubio: “For more than a year, ISIL has been murdering civilians, raping women and young girls and enslaving them, and carrying out a systematic genocide of anyone who does not share their warped and extremist Islamist views. ISIL cannot be reasoned with, they can’t be negotiated with, and their view of the world is irreconcilable with civilized society."

◼ Fighting the ‘Convert or Die’ Caliphate in Iraq 0 Marco Rubio/National Review
◼ Lawmakers: Foley killing shows brutality of ISIS - The Hill
◼ US officials: Video shows American's beheading - AP/Townhall

The New York-based Committee to Protect Journalists estimated Tuesday that about 20 journalists are missing in Syria, and has not released their nationalities. In its annual report last November, CPJ concluded that the missing journalists are either being held and threatened with death by extremists, or taken captive by gangs seeking ransom. The group's report described the widespread seizure of journalists as unprecedented and largely unreported by news organizations in the hope that keeping the kidnappings out of public view may help in the captives' release.

◼ Everything has changed after the execution of James Foley by ISIS - Noah Rothman/HotAir

President Barack Obama will return to Washington today to give a statement on the gruesome execution of an American at the hands of an Islamic militant who appears to have been British-born. Obama will be unable to satisfy the concerns of a nervous and wounded nation if he merely reprises his threadbare role as America’s “comforter-in-chief.” The country demands a plan of action aimed at rolling back ISIS from Iraq and a longer-term strategy to suppress the Islamic State threat in Syria.

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ISIS BEHEADS AMERICAN JOURNALIST...
Threatens to kill another...
Fate depends on Obama's next move...
Al-Qaeda Announces 'Solidarity'...
UK 'urgently investigates' slaughter...
David Cameron cancels vacation...
TWITTER suspends accounts for sharing gruesome images...
CLAIM: ISIS, MEXICAN DRUG CARTELS 'TALKING TO EACH OTHER'...