Islamic State Remains Distant Threat to U.S. Homeland

Islamic State terrorists have swept across Iraq and released lurid videos showing the beheading of two U.S. journalists, yet the group poses little immediate threat to the U.S. homeland, former intelligence officers and counterterrorism officials said.

There’s no evidence Islamic State has a network of assets outside the Middle East, and its ambitions are concentrated on gaining control of territory in Syria and Iraq rather than hitting American territory, they said.