BARRACK OBAMA AND DAVID CAMERON CALLS ON NATO TO FIGHT THE IS

As  leaders met for a NATO summit in Wales, U.S. President Barack Obama and British Prime Minister David Cameron called on NATO to confront the Islamic State, in an opinion piece for The Times of London. In interviews at the summit, Cameron stressed the importance of cooperation with local partners, but noted that he and other NATO leaders would "not rule anything out" in combatting Islamic State militants.

Cameron however refused to work with the regime of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, calling the government illegitimate and suggesting Assad's consent would not be necessary to conduct airstrikes in Syrian territory. Meanwhile, the British government has been funding a team of international experts to conduct an investigation into suspected war crimes and crimes against humanity committed by Islamic State militants. Human Rights Watch reported on Wednesday that it found evidence of three additional sites where Islamic State militants appeared to have carried out mass executions of mainly Iraqi soldiers. Turkey said it has tightened control of its border to "close a "jihadist highway" where arms and fighters have flowed into Syria to the Islamic State.