Desde el portaaviones George H. Washington despegan los aviones estadounidenses que bombardean al Estado Islámico.
Iraqi Christian refugees board a plane bound for Paris from Arbil in northern Iraq as they flee violence in their country on August 21, 2014. The United States sought to maintain pressure on jihadist militants in Iraq, launching air strikes after the murder of a journalist underlined the international threat posed by the Islamic State. AFP PHOTO / JOEL SAGET
(FILES) - File picture taken September 29, 2011 shows US freelance reporter James Foley resting in a room at the airport of Sirte, Libya. Jihadist group the Islamic State claimed August 19, 2014 to have executed American journalist James Foley in revenge for US air strikes against its fighters in Iraq. The Islamist group released a video purportedly showing a masked militant beheading the reporter, who has been missing since he was seized by armed men in Syria in November 2012. AFP PHOTO / ARIS MESSINIS
El secretario de Defensa, Chuck Hagel, y el general Martin Dempsey.
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(FILES) - A file picture taken on August 12, 2014, shows Iraqi Kurdish Peshmerga fighters taking position as they monitor the area from the front line in Bashiqa, a town 13 kilometres north-east of Mosul. Iraqi Kurdish forces battling jihadists face their biggest threat since brutal crackdowns by Saddam Hussein's regime, beset by challenges including lacking experience, training and supplies and a huge front to defend. AFP PHOTO/AHMAD AL-RUBAYE
El jefe del grupo Estado Islámico, Abu Bakr al Baghdadi, se hace llamar califa.
