“What are we doing here helping their fighters, who we are bombing, to be treated so they can fight again?” The Daily Beast’s Jamie Dettmer on the international aid that is providing support to ISIS.

+ So you were a young jihadist from the West who fought in Iraq and Syria and now you want to kick the habit. Where do you go? I’d suggest Denmark.

+ In what could be a dramatic policy reversal, Turkey could allow Iraqi Kurdish fighters to cross the Syrian border to fight ISIS militants in Kobane.

+ “Virtually no one, anywhere on the political spectrum, denies that the James Foley video changed everything. The beheading seared into our minds, led us to dark rooms of our national psyche, rooms that are better left bricked over. And a picture is worth a thousand troops.” Matter’s Marshall Sella on ISIS’ mix of new-media savvy with medieval savagery: The making of the world’s scariest terrorist brand.