Koalisi Melawan Islamic State

Menurut berita di Aljazeera, Amerika Serika mengajak untuk membentuk koalisi untuk menyerang dan menghancurkan Islamic State.
Koalisi yang diusulkan terdiri dari negara berikut ini:

1. Amerika Serikat
2. Inggris
3. Perancis
4. Jerman
5. Kanada
6. Australia
7. Turki
8. Italia
9. Polandia
10. Denmark

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Sumber:  http://www.aljazeera.com/news/middleeast/2014/09/us-coalition-islamic-state-201495125041783911.html
The United States has called for the creation of a broad international coalition to go after and “destroy” the Islamic State group, and build a plan by the time the UN General Assembly meets later this month.
US Secretary of State John Kerry and Defence Secretary Chuck Hagel, pressed a core coalition of 10 nations at a NATO summit in Wales on Friday to go after the Islamic State (IS) in Iraq and Syria militarily and financially.
“There is no time to waste in building a broad international coalition to degrade and, ultimately, to destroy the threat posed by the Islamic State,” Kerry and Hagel said in a joint statement.
In a private meeting with the foreign and defence ministers from the UK, France, Germany, Canada, Australia, Turkey, Italy, Poland and Denmark, Kerry said there were many ways each country could contribute in the fight against IS.
“We need to attack them in ways that prevent them from taking over territory”, Kerry told the meeting.
And, while noting that there would not be many willing to engage in military strikes, he said countries could instead provide intelligence, equipment, ammunition or weapons.
“We have the technology, we have the know-how,”
“What we need is obviously the willpower to make sure that we are steady and stay at this,” he added.
Chuck Hagel, said the group of 10 nations represented a core coalition that will be needed. He said the group can then be expanded.
The session focused on the Islamic State group in Iraq, but Kerry said there are obviously “implications about Syria in this” and suggested they could discuss that later in the day.
The US has launched air strikes against IS targets in Iraq, and has been accused by the Syrian opposition of applying double standards as it has not yet intervened against the group in Syria, where it also controls large areas in the north.
International support
Canada announced on Friday it would deploy military officials to Iraq to advise government forces.
“The fanaticism of the [Islamic State] terrorist group is a real threat to regional security and millions of innocent people in Iraq, Syria and beyond,” Prime Minister Stephen Harper said in a statement at the NATO summit.
Germany, which has also decided to aid Kurdish fighters battling the Islamic State group, has already sent a plane carrying the first shipment of military aid for Iraq.
The plane that left Germany early on Friday morning was stocked with protective vests, helmets, night vision telescopes, communications equipment and devices for mine search and disposal, said Lieutenant Colonel Christoph von Loewenstern.
British Prime Minister David Cameron and French President Francois Hollande told US President Barack Obama in private meetings that Washington had to do more than simply order air strikes on IS targets in Iraq and needed an overall strategy, European officials said.
“It can’t be just ‘let’s go and bomb a few targets and see what happens’,” one Western defence official familiar with the talks between the allied leaders told the Reuters news agency.
France said this week it was ready to engage in all aspects of the fight against IS, including potentially military action.
IS, formerly known as ISIL, grew out of the American-led war in Iraq, and entered the civil war in Syria last year.
The group’s leader, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, declared himself the leader of a caliphate earlier this year after seizing control of vast swaths of territory straddling the borders of Iraq and Syria.
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