Obama Rethinks Strategy Against Islamic State

President Obama, “under growing pressure after a setback in the war against Islamic State, is poised to accelerate the training and equipping of Sunni tribal fighters so they can try to reverse the extremists’ recent gains,” the Wall Street Journal reports.

Obama met with top national-security advisers “in the aftermath of a humiliating defeat of Iraqi security forces in the city of Ramadi… U.S. officials initially played down the importance of the takeover of Ramadi, 70 miles northwest of Baghdad in Iraq’s largest province. But the battle exposed crucial weaknesses within the Iraqi military, which is at the heart of the American strategy, and prompted the White House to acknowledge a setback.”