NATO allies agree to take on ISIS threat

September 06, 2014 11:14

The United States and nine key allies agreed Friday that the Islamic State group is a significant threat to NATO countries and that they will take on the militants by squeezing their financial resources and going after them with military might.

With the Islamic State militants spreading across eastern Syria and northern and western Iraq, President Barack Obama noted that the moderate Syrian rebels fighting both the group and the government of Bashar Assad are outgunned and outmanned.

In addition to the action pledged by fellow NATO leaders, he pressed Arab allies to reject the nihilism projected by the group.

The new NATO coalition will be able to mount a sustained effort to push back the militants, Obama said. The US secretaries of State and Defence, meeting with their counterparts at the international gathering, insisted the Western nations build a plan by the time the UN General Assembly meets this month.

I did not get any resistance or pushback to the basic notion that we have a critical role to play in rolling back this savage organization that is causing so much chaos in the region and is harming so many people and poses a long-term threat to the safety and security of NATO members, Obama said at the summit conclusion.

So theres great conviction that we have to act, as part of the international community, to degrade and ultimately destroy ISIL, and that was extremely encouraging.

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