Wrapping up the NATO Summit in Wales is the formation of a coalition of world leaders and their representatives to combat the terrorism ISIS threatens to expand from Iraq and Syria to the world. At the fore is the United States that has been signing up international partners to engage with the threat of the militant group.

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Secretary of State John Kerry hosted the meeting with Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel on Friday to discuss with international representatives the threat of the Islamic State Group. Present were representatives from Poland, Germany, France, Denmark, Italy, Australia, Turkey, and Canada.

Following the meeting, U.S. President Barack Obama made his strongest statements yet on his country's anti-Islamic State group strategies.

President Obama highlighted strategies previously adopted by the United States in combating terrorist groups in the past.

"We are going to degrade and ultimately defeat ISIS, the same way that we have gone after al Qaeda," said President Obama, echoing a speech he made in Estonia not a few days ago.

According to the president, the present threat posed by the Islamic State group could be curtailed by narrowing their scope of action.

"You slowly shrink the space, the territory that they may control. You take out their leadership," he said.

Over time, the Islamic State group will be incapable of "the same kinds of terrorist attacks as they once could."

Ultimately, the anti-ISIS coalition hopes to dismantle the terrorist group.

To this end, the coalition laid out specific objectives of destroying the Islamic State group such as reducing the flow of foreign fighters and sympathizers into their ranks, ending the funding channelled through trade of petroleum products, increased support to Iraqi military forces, and nipping the ISIS ideology in the bud.

Kerry and Hagel are set to fortify this coalition in the coming weeks as they seek partnership with countries closer to Iraq and Syria.

"The secretary's been on the phone and in contact with his partners from places like Turkey, Jordan, Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Kuwait, Qatar," reported CNN, quoting deputy spokesperson Marie Harf.

Notably, the United Arab Emirates have signalled support for the anti-ISIS coalition.

NATO representatives were given until the later weeks of September to signal their involvement in the coalition, in time for the UN General Assembly where President Obama will lead the U.N. Security Council in creating measures to take on the threat of foreign terrorism.

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