--- description: Secretary of State John Kerry is testifying before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee on the Obama Administration's strategy for combatting the militant group Islamic State... title: LIVE: John Kerry Testifies Before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- * [Politics](/section/politics/) ## Politics Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close * [Foreign Policy](/tag/foreign-policy/) ## Foreign Policy Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close # LIVE: John Kerry Testifies Before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee by [TIME Video](/author/time-video/) ## TIME Video Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Sep 17, 2014 6:30 PM CUT by [TIME Video](/author/time-video/) ## TIME Video Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Sep 17, 2014 6:30 PM CUT Secretary of State John Kerry is testifying before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee on the Obama Administration’s strategy for combatting the militant group Islamic State of Iraq and Greater Syria (ISIS). ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3394193/isis-john-kerry/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3394193/isis-john-kerry/"},"headline":"LIVE: John Kerry Testifies Before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee","datePublished":"2014-09-17T18:30:21.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-21T10:14:55.238Z","description":"Secretary of State John Kerry is testifying before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee on the Obama Administration's strategy for combatting the militant group Islamic State...","url":"https://time.com/3394193/isis-john-kerry/","keywords":["Foreign Policy"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"TIME Video","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/time-video/"}],"articleSection":"Politics","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/politics/","name":"Politics"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/foreign-policy/","name":"Foreign Policy"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3394193/isis-john-kerry/","name":"LIVE: John Kerry Testifies Before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee"}}]}] ```