Video - The Islamic State: On the ground in Iraq
Today America's top military officer, General Martin Dempsey, said the U.S. and its allies will attack ISIS from many directions. "We want them to wake up every day realizing they're being squeezed," he said. American pilots have hit the Islamic extremist group in Iraq nearly 200 times now, and soon the U.S. will be bombing ISIS in Syria.
America was drawn back into war when ISIS began to overrun part of northern Iraq called Kurdistan. Kurdistan is semi-autonomous with its own military called the Peshmerga. With American air support, the Peshmerga are holding a tense front line against ISIS.
Earlier this month, we started our reporting on that frontline to explain ISIS; what it is, where it came from and how it blitzed through two countries. In June, the leader of ISIS declared himself ruler of a new nation, which he calls The Islamic State.
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