Boehner: Awaiting Obama strategy against militants

WASHINGTON (AP) — House Speaker John Boehner said Tuesday that Islamic State militants pose a serious threat that must be dealt with in Iraq, Syria or wherever they exist as he pressed President Barack Obama to spell out the U.S. strategy to destroy the militants.

“I think we need to be going after the terrorist threat wherever it is and anyone who thinks this is just an Iraq-Syria issue is not paying much attention to what’s happening around the world,” Boehner told reporters after a House Republican caucus meeting with former Vice President Dick Cheney.