Obama Urges World to Fight against ISIL

KABUL: (Middle East Press) President Barack Obama has urged the world Wednesday to join the US-led coalition to defeat ‘jihadists’ in Iraq and Syria, branding them terrorists engaged in a “network of death.”

“The United States of America will work with a broad coalition to take apart this network of death,” Obama told the UN General Assembly. “Today I ask the world to join in this effort.”

The US president spoke as the United States, backed by its Arab allies, carried out a second wave of air strikes in Syria, the latest front in its campaign to wipe out the Islamic State organisation.

Obama said in his address to the 193-nation Assembly, “The only language understood by killers like this is the language of force,”

“We will use our armed forces might in a campaign of air strikes to roll back ISIL,” he stated, referring to ISIL.