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“Providing arms could be contributing to the military campaign,” said a second State Department official. “Any sort of training activity would be contributing to the military campaign.”

its airstrikes on the defense of Erbil, securing the Mosul Dam and protecting the Haditha Dam.

“The Iraqis have asked for assistance in the border regions, and that’s something we’re looking at,” the first State Department official said.

“They have a very new air force,” a third State Department official said, referring to the Iraqi military. “Their targeting is not nearly as precise as ours and they have made some real mistakes.”

Saudi Arabia has agreed to provide bases for training moderate Syrian rebels

“I disagree completely with ISIS in thought and means, but I do not accept that America fights them,” said the scholar, Sheikh Yusef Qaradawi, leader of the International Union of Muslim Scholars, in a Twitter message reported around the region. The United States, he said, “is not moved by Islamic values but by its own interests, even if it spills blood.”

his scholars’ union declared ISIS’s self-proclaimed caliphate “null and void,” arguing that its extremism stigmatized more mainstream Islamists and undermined broader Sunni opposition movements in Syria and Iraq.

Now his criticism of the American role may increase the fears of a backlash against Arab governments that publicly join the campaign.

groups of Iraqi forces, Kurds and Syrian rebels stepped up to provide the fighting forces on the ground.

choke off ISIS’s ability to reap $1 million or more a day from oil sales,

Qatar hosting an American military headquarters.

trainers from other Western countries.

Having occupied crucial sections of Syria over the past year and more recently seizing vast areas of Iraq, the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria controls territory greater than many countries and now rivals Al Qaeda as the world’s most powerful jihadist group.

even as he expressed strong opposition to deploying American ground troops.

The president is still wrestling with a series of challenges, including how to intervene without aiding President Bashar al-Assad, and how to enlist potentially reluctant partners like Turkey and Saudi Arabia.

“The president has now declared that defeating ISIL is his objective,” he said. “That’s a good start. But Americans don’t want a lecture. They want a plan — a credible, comprehensive plan to deal with this menace that clearly wants to harm us here at home, and that is only becoming stronger by the day.”

Mr. Obama’s speech to the nation, on the eve of the 13th anniversary of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks,

The harrowing images, captured on video and circulated around the world, have turned American public opinion in favor of military action against the militants, recent polls show, and appear to have moved a president who had long resisted military engagement in Syria. And the United States has conducted airstrikes against ISIS in Iraq.

the mourning has never ended.

The Family Room opened in April 2002 in space donated by Brookfield Office Properties, the owners of 1 Liberty Plaza, a 54-story skyscraper across Church Street from the trade center site.

replaced this summer by a new private gathering space in the National September 11 Memorial Museum pavilion

“We don’t want to have anything in our collection that a donor doesn’t want us to have.”

I feel it’s time for people to see our pain, our anguish, our love and our strength; to experience all that we felt and feel about our loved ones, in its purest and most uninhibited form.

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