These are some of the headlines we are tracking for you in this episode of On The News Line:
Impact of Paris attacks on US politics
Bernie Sanders who has been against the Iraq war now wants a war, Clinton who was aligned with Obama on the fight against Daesh is now distancing itself from him, and US hopefuls like Trump want to have a Muslim database, giving rise to Islamophobia.
80-percenr rise in terror threats: So much for the ‘war on terror’
A report by global terrorism Index shows that terrorist killings were up by 80% in 2014 with attacks by Boko Haram in Nigeria and ISIL in Syria and Iraq driving the increase in deaths. Other countries were Afghanistan and Pakistan, all countries the US were involved in.
Daesh growth under US supervision
Daesh may have expanded into Syria, but it grew under Washington’s supervision in Iraq. The US watched its growth as an offspring of al-Qaeda, while Saudi Arabia supported its expansion.