When the Iraqi city of Ramadi fell from control of the government to the Islamic State in March, American and Iraqi leaders alike demanded a new strategy, a new effort to beat back the terrorist group....

The so-called Islamic State released a video on Tuesday, just days after the beheading of the Japanese hostage Kenji Goto, showing the Jordanian pilot Muath al- Kasasbeh being burned alive in a steel cage. Kasasbeh,...