Islamic State conflict: London hosts coalition talks (JV Update)

BBC News ^ | January 22, 2015

[Oldeconomybuyer]

Foreign ministers from 21 countries are meeting in London to discuss ways to co-ordinate their efforts to combat the jihadist group Islamic State (IS).

IS controls large swathes of Syria and Iraq and the US-led coalition has been carrying out air strikes since August.

But UK Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond insisted much more needed to be done.

He told the BBC that the countries wanted to find ways to halt the flow of recruits to IS, cut off its funding and "tackle the underlying narrative".

At the start of Thursday's conference at Lancaster House, which he is co-hosting with Mr Hammond, US Secretary of State John Kerry told reporters: "We still have a lot of work to do."

[Oldeconomybuyer]

[Sacajaweau]

And who are the Lakers asked a bazillion women??

How the hell can this guy have the Lakers and al queda in the same brain waves. What a screwed up head.

[Sacajaweau]

But wait....I thought Obama was having the summit here in February.

Of course we all know that the original Obama/Holder summit was scheduled for October in DC...just before elections...but was cancelled for some unknown reason.

[piasa]

All he knows how to do is play games.

[PoloSec]

To much talk; that never action, unless it results in the loss of freedom for non-islamic citizens, it has been that way everywhere ever since 9-11.

[SWAMPSNIPER]