Globe Trot: ISIS vows attacks on 60 countries

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ISIS: In a new video with the tagline “Remaining and Expanding,” Islamic State promises attacks on 60 countries.

A new report details the efforts of ISIS to expand inside the United States, where the FBI has launched nearly 1,000 investigations of possible insurgency activity nationwide. WORLD’s 2015 Daniels of the Year are the unconquered Christian victims of ISIS, from Egypt to Syria and beyond.

FRANCE: Unsurprisingly, President Barack Obama blamed the United States for contributing to climate change, borrowing imagery from the civil rights movement and the Cold War era to heighten the stakes in his speech to world leaders gathered in Paris today. Mainstream media touts a poll showing two-thirds of Americans want the United States to sign the pact, but there is scant coverage of the pact’s intent to create an “International Tribunal of Climate Justice” where U.S. emissions would be brought before Latin American socialists and UN bureaucrats like Christiana Figueres.

Two degrees Celsius is the benchmark guiding policymakers in climate change discussions, but that threshold may have more to do with keeping the climate change alarmists from upsetting scientists’ dogma on evolution: “The idea was, ‘let’s not move the human enterprise out of an evolutionary regime that we are adapted to,’” said Hans Joachim Schellnhuber, director of the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research

TURKEY: Russia issued economic sanctions against Turkey after the Turkish F-16s shot down a Russian Su-24 warplane, claiming it violated Turkish airspace—dubious punishment that mostly will affect tourism. The shootdown more than anything showed the chaotic state of military pursuits over Syria, with Russia testing NATO’s willingness to defend its borders—and NATO failing to respond decisively.

NIGERIA: An in-depth report by Open Doors shows violence in Nigeria is the result of “ethnic/religious cleansing,” not environmental losses or migration, and tracks attacks on Christians spreading from the north to the country’s Middle Belt. That was also the focus of a WORLD cover story in July.

Mindy Belz

Mindy, a former senior editor for WORLD Magazine, wrote the publication’s first cover story in 1986. She has covered wars in Syria, Afghanistan, Africa, and the Balkans and is author of They Say We Are Infidels: On the Run From ISIS With Persecuted Christians in the Middle East. Mindy resides in Asheville, N.C.

@MindyBelz