An anti-ISIS coalition was formed at the close of the NATO Summit in Wales on Friday to fulfill U.S. President Barack Obama's promise to "degrade and destroy" the Islamic State group. Next in Obama's anti-ISIS agenda is the strengthening of this coalition through enlisting more international allies before he convenes the UN Security Council in late September.

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Presently, 10 NATO members have signed up for the anti-ISIS coalition. The United Kingdom, Germany, Australia, Italy, Denmark, Poland, France, Canada, and Turkey are expected to lend financial and military support in the coalition's fight against the armed jihadists.

Secretary of State John Kerry's impassioned speech at the NATO Summit on Friday made the clear distinction that the intent was not to contain the black-cladded jihadist group, but to eliminate them.

"They're an ambitious, avowed, genocidal, territorial-grabbing, caliphate-desiring quasi state with an irregular army," said Kerry, emphasizing the need for a clear strategy to defeat the Islamic State group that threatens to spread terrorism from Syria and Iraq to the rest of the world.

"We need a clarity to the strategy, and a clarity to what everybody is going to undertake," Kerry said.

The anti-ISIS coalition will support President Obama's plan which calls for preventing new recruits from joining the extremist group's ranks, cutting off its funding, delegitimizing its extremist ideologies, and enhancing combat troops on the ground which consist exclusively of Iraqi-Kurdish-Syrian forces.

Kerry with Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel have been working to enlist Jordan to assist in intelligence work and Saudi Arabia for funding anti-ISIS efforts. The Secretary of State has also been in contact with the leaders of Qatar, Kuwait and the United Arab Emirates who have so far indicated strong support for the anti-ISIS coalition.

Egypt is also expected to cooperate, according to a senior Whitehouse official.

erry, Hagel and counterterrorism adviser Lisa Monaco will travel to the region next week to confirm with the Gulf Leaders of their concrete support.

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