The NATO Summit in Wales wrapped up with the formation of a coalition of world leaders and their representatives to combat counter in Iraq and Syria.
Six EU countries, Denmark; France; Germany; Italy; Poland; and the UK have joined a US-led coalition to “degrade and destroy” the ISIS.
US president Barack Obama told press: “We are going to degrade and ultimately destroy ISIL [ISIS] … the same way we’ve gone after al-Qaeda, and the same way we’ve gone after its affiliates in Somalia”.
But ‘Core Group’ leaders at the NATO event ruled out: sending ground troops; negotiating with IS on hostages; or forming an alliance with IS adversary, Syrian leader Bashar Assad.
According to the US president, the present threat posed by ISIS could be curtailed by narrowing their scope of action.
“You slowly shrink the space, the territory that they may control. You take out their leadership,” he said.
Over time, the Islamic State group will be incapable of “the same kinds of terrorist attacks as they once could.”
Ultimately, the anti-ISIS coalition hopes to dismantle the group by measures including reducing the flow of foreign fighters and sympathizers into their ranks, ending the funding channelled through trade of petroleum products.
