Nations chart future steps against Islamic State extremists
The Hindu
The meeting came just a day after the U.S. launched airstrikes against Iran-backed militias near the Iraq-Syria border.
As the U.S. works on its military withdrawal from Afghanistan, members of the global coalition fighting the Islamic State group met on Monday to plot future steps against the extremist group. The meeting came just a day after the U.S. launched airstrikes against Iran-backed militias near the Iraq-Syria border. U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Italian Foreign Minister Luigi Di Maio were co-chairing the gathering of senior officials from the seven-year-old, 83-member bloc. Participants were taking stock of their current efforts to ensure the complete defeat of IS, whose remnants still pose a threat in Iraq and Syria and have shown signs of surging in parts of Africa.More Related News