Gulf countries struggle to build anti-Jihadist front
BY Agencies1 Sep 2014 12:47 AM GMT
Agencies1 Sep 2014 12:47 AM GMT
Gulf countries, while siding with Washington against Islamic State Jihadists, are struggling to build a common front because of differences within their own ranks and with non-Arab Iran.
Barack Obama is sending his Secretary of State John Kerry to the Middle East to try to build strong regional support against IS, which is rampaging through Iraq and Syria. But ‘we don’t have a strategy yet’ to defeat the Jihadists, he acknowledged on Thursday.
Saudi Foreign Minister Prince Saud al-Faisal has over the past week been at the centre of diplomatic efforts to stand up to the challenge posed by IS to the status quo.
He and his counterparts from Egypt, Qatar and the Emirates held talks on Syria and ‘the rise of terrorist extremist ideology’, according to an official statement.
They agreed on ‘the need to seriously work to deal with these crises to preserve security in Arab countries’, it said.
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