WASHINGTON WEEK

WITH GWEN IFILL

FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 9:00PM

This Week: Ukraine-Russia Crisis, U.S. Strategy Against ISIL After Another Journalist Killed, NATO Summit

The expanding threat of Islamic State (ISIL) extremists in Iraq and Syria and Russian President Vladimir Putin’s continued aggression in Ukraine are dominating the NATO summit underway in Wales.

Following the second beheading of an American journalist at the hands of ISIL, President Obama announced that the U.S. strategy is to build an international coalition to “degrade and destroy” the jihadist group. Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel said this week that more than 100 Americans are fighting with ISIL. This was the first time Hagel put an estimate on U.S. citizens aiding the terrorist group.

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