Building a coalition to degrade and destroy ISIL in the Middle East
After generations of religious and political strife in the region, can the US create a united Arab army against ISIL?
September 15, 2014 9:00AM ET
by Inside Story Team @AJInsideStoryAM
Secretary of State Kerry is corralling commitments from governments in Paris this week as the United States figures out how to, as President Barack Obama put it, "degrade and destroy" the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), the rebel force that took over swaths of Iraq this summer.
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