The United States has sought to rally greater cooperation among allies seeking to crush the ISIS ‘global network,’ on the heels of attacks in Paris, Beirut and Baghdad.
Special envoy Brett McGurk urged allies to “increase pressure on ISIS at its core,” the State Department said.
“We need to do more as a coalition to coordinate our efforts and pressure ISIl across its global network,” it added, using another acronym for the group.
McGurk was speaking during a meeting he and Vice President Joe Biden had with top representatives of the 65 coalition members at the State Department including French, Italian, Turkish and lebanese officials who have been bombing IS positions in Syria and Iraq for more than a year.
The meeting follows a string of attacks claimed by the self-proclaimed ISIS, including in Ankara, Baghdad, Beirut and Paris, in Ankara, and against a Russian jet blown up over Egypt.
“The coalition is united in our determination to end the scourge that ISIS has brought to the region and the larger global community,” the State Department said.
“We will continue to find strength in our diversity and reject ISIl’s goal of using terror to divide us.”