The United States has begun air strikes on the Islamic State in Syria.
According to the BBC, American fighters destroyed targets in southeast Syria on September 22. The United States has been launching air strikes at Islamic State fighters in Iraq previously, pushing them back from Kurdistan and off of the Mosul Dam. Now the US has begun attacking the Islamic State over the entirety of their zone of operation. President Barack Obama authorized air strikes in Syria after aligning the U.S. with a coalition composed of over fifty nations, including many Arab nations. The U.S. has expanded air strikes to the entirety of Syria, and is also attacking a smaller terrorist group of al-Qaeda fighters called the Khorasan.

Sophomore Jonathan Nase said, “I support these air strikes. They are necessary to help combat the spread of radical Islam, and we need to remind terrorists that the United States is the most powerful nation in the world.”