Foreign ministers to meet in US on Islamic State amid Syria pullout

January 30, 2019 08:19

Foreign ministers from around the world will meet next week in Washington to coordinate the fight against the Islamic State movement after US President Donald Trump's controversial decision to pull out of Syria, the State Department said.

US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo will host a day of meetings on February 6 of the 79-member Global Coalition to Defeat ISIS, which the United States assembled in 2014 as the extremists seized vast stretches of Syria and Iraq.

"The United States is determined to prevent a resurgence of ISIS in Syria and Iraq after the withdrawal of US forces from Syria takes place, and remains committed to working with the Global Coalition to continue to destroy ISIS remnants and thwart its global ambitions," the State Department said in a statement on Tuesday.

Trump, a longstanding sceptic on US foreign involvements, said in December that he was withdrawing the 2,000-strong US force from Syria and declared the defeat of the Islamic State group.

The coalition last met at the level of ministers in July in Brussels.

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