- BY DAVID FRANCIS-AUGUST 29, 2014
A day after President Barack Obama said that the United States has no plan for countering the Islamic State, that it would not confront the Islamist militant group in Syria alone, and that it doesn't intend anything stronger than fiscal sanctions to punish Russia for invading Ukraine, sources within NATO said that the alliance is also unlikely to act directly.No NATO Action Against Russia or Islamic State by Thavam
