published Jun 1st 2016, 7:31 pm, by Eli Lake (Bloomberg View) —In this turbulent election year, one constant theme for leaders of both major parties is a desire to build a global coalition against the Islamic State. Now a relatively unknown group is taking that message literally. On Wednesday, a

©2016 Bloomberg News O32V6A6JIJV0 (Bloomberg) — Islamic State has released a new video that targets the chief executive officers of Facebook Inc. and Twitter Inc. The 25-minute clip shows the faces of Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg and Twitter’s Jack Dorsey riddled with mock bullet holes, according to the Guardian newspaper and

©2016 Bloomberg News O0WVYRSYF01X (Bloomberg) — Twitter Inc. was accused in a lawsuit by the widow of a man killed at a police training center in Jordan of knowingly allowing the Islamic State to spread its terrorist message through its service. The lawsuit by Tamara Fields was filed Wednesday in

©2015 Bloomberg News NZ0JKJ6KLVR9 (Bloomberg) — President Barack Obama’s Oval Office speechon combating ISIS included a plea for “high-tech and law enforcement leaders to make it harder for terrorists to use technology to escape from justice.” Hours earlier, Hillary Clinton gave her own speech urging Silicon Valley’s “disrupters” to get to

©2015 Bloomberg News NYYYIV6K50XT (Bloomberg) — President Barack Obama warned that the mass shooting in California last week showed the terrorist menace has evolved into a “new phase” of less sophisticated, harder to detect plots, while assuring the public that organizations like Islamic State that threaten the U.S. will be

©2015 Bloomberg News NYPIMT6KLVRC (Bloomberg) — Japan is at risk of cyber attacks on its essential infrastructure by Islamic State, the country’s minister in charge of public safety said in an interview two weeks after a series of lethal terrorist attacks in Paris. Chairperson of the National Public Safety Commission

©2015 Bloomberg News NYNMAO6JTSEB (Bloomberg) — Ted Cruz on Monday offered his strongest denunciation so far of Marco Rubio’s foreign policy views, assailing his Republican presidential rival as a proponent of “military adventurism” that he said has benefited Islamic militant groups. He even tied the Floridian to Democratic front- runner

©2015 Bloomberg News NYC27H6S972X (Bloomberg) — Ted Cruz’s moment has arrived. Less than 10 weeks before Iowa voters their cast the first votes of the presidential campaign season in Feb. 1 caucuses, a new Quinnipiac poll shows the Texas senator statistically tiedwith Republican presidential front-runner Donald Trump for the lead in

©2015 Bloomberg News NXHZOA6S972B (Bloomberg) — As tourists abandon the Egyptian resort of Sharm el-Sheikh, government and aviation officials warned that global airport security will need to be reviewed if suspicions are confirmed that a bomb brought down a Russian jetliner over Sinai. While officials don’t have enough evidence yet to

©2015 Bloomberg News NUPOUD6JTSEK (Bloomberg) — Russian President Vladimir Putin said the fight against Islamic State should be the global community’s top priority in Syria, rather than changing the regime of Bashar al- Assad. A broad coalition is needed to combat the threat posed by the terrorist group, which wants