Islamic State biggest foreign threat, Vance

OTTAWA – The menace posed by the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant is the conflict that keeps Canada’s new top military commander awake at night.

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Gen. Jonathan Vance, who took over as the country’s 19th chief of defence staff on Friday, says the rise of an extremist state in the Middle East is not something that can go unchallenged by the West. “The most worrying one right now, the most threatening is the Islamic State,” Vance said in an interview with The Canadian Press. More...