Jordan’s Hostage Negotiation and Impact on Anti-ISIS Coalition

The deadline has passed for a prisoner swap between the nation of Jordan and the so-called Islamic State, which is threatening to kill a Japanese journalist and a Jordanian Air Force pilot. Jordan said it would turn over a woman captured as part of a suicide-bombing plot—but ISIS has not yet provided proof that the Jordanian pilot is still alive. Rod Nordland is in Amman, Jordan for the New York Times.