Summary
In the early hours of Sunday morning, a police van was ambushed and eight policemen were killed. Culprits of this affair were militants of so-called Islamic State (IS), and said they carried out the attack. Recently, in Cairo, insurgents have conducted surprise attacks on police. The group opened pictures that show horrible bodies of killed policemen online. The IS statement said the attack was revenge on capture of Islamist women in Egyptian jails.
Opinion
In November 2015, IS declared that all Japanese people became targets of IS because of Japan’s support for the Allied Nations. This in no longer somebody else’s affair, but everybody’s affair today. What should we do against a threat of Islamic State? I think we should make up cooperation systems in international society. We should not only bombing, but also adopt measures without arms. Bombing inevitably kills a lot of ordinary people and increase the number of people who join IS. It’s only “a rat race”. For example, if other countries close borders, they can stop an inflow of new militants and resources into IS. Each country’s keeping in close contact and cooperation is needed to finish the threat.