US Rep. Lynch says Islamic State needs to be fenced in financially

The Syrian crisis grows more severe by the day, with about half of the country’s population now displaced. Secretary of State John Kerry has announced that the US will raise its emigration cap to accept 100,000 total refugees by 2017. Domestically, legislators are trying to ensure aid for those who have fled while eyeing a long-term strategy to address the Islamic State’s continued savagery in the region.