Anti-ISIS Conference In Paris Ended With Controversial Results.

On Monday, September 15, a conference called to discuss the strategy of the fight against ISIS was held in Paris. Led by the United States, 24 countries have decided to unite their efforts and expressed their readiness to make any necessary measures to combat the global threat. Furthermore, the US says nearly 40 countries have already offered to help fight the transnational jihadist movement.

Monday’s talks in Paris had been called to agree a strategy to combat ISIS, which the CIA estimates to have between 20,000 and 31,000 fighters in Iraq and Syria. Francois Hollande told the conference Islamic State represented a global threat.

The key players at Anti-ISIS Conference in Paris, France. Photo: BBC

According to The Guardian amid continuing uncertainty about who will do what in the coalition, urgent appeals were the order of the day. The French president Francois Hollande asked western and Arab countries to engage “clearly, loyally and strongly on the side of the Iraqi authorities”.

“There was no time to lose in dealing with the ISIS threat. Iraq’s fight against terrorism is also ours,” he said. The French foreign minister, Laurent Fabius, said ISIS was neither “a state or representative of Islam”, neither were its “throat-cutters.”Continue reading