{"id":5231,"date":"2014-09-13T14:55:20","date_gmt":"2014-09-13T07:55:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/?p=5231"},"modified":"2014-09-13T14:55:34","modified_gmt":"2014-09-13T07:55:34","slug":"islamic-state-john-kerry-visits-egypt-for-coalition-talks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/egypt\/islamic-state-john-kerry-visits-egypt-for-coalition-talks\/","title":{"rendered":"Islamic State: John Kerry visits Egypt for coalition talks"},"content":{"rendered":"

US Secretary of State John Kerry will arrive in Egypt on Saturday amid US attempts to form a broad coalition to tackle Islamic State (IS) militants.<\/p>\n

Mr Kerry will meet Arab League chief Nabil al-Arabi in Cairo on the latest leg of his Middle East tour.<\/p>\n

He has enlisted the support of 10 Arab states so far, including Saudi Arabia and Qatar, but on Friday he ruled out Iran joining the US-led coalition.<\/p>\n

On Friday, the CIA said IS has as many as 30,000 fighters in Syria and Iraq.<\/p>\n

IS controls large parts of both countries and its fighters have become notorious for their brutality, but in recent weeks they have been targeted by US air strikes.<\/p>\n

On Wednesday, President Barack Obama unveiled plans for an expansion of the US campaign against IS.<\/p>\n

He vowed to “hunt down terrorists who threaten our country, wherever they are.”…<\/p>\n

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US Secretary of State John Kerry will arrive in Egypt on Saturday amid US attempts to form a broad coalition to tackle Islamic State (IS) militants. Mr Kerry will meet Arab League chief Nabil al-Arabi in Cairo on the latest leg of his Middle East tour. He has enlisted the support of 10 Arab states […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":188473,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[338],"tags":[258,256,4033,4030,4697,415,4035,3984,4028,411,2442,257,4694,3981,3970,254,4031,4032,4034,2441,4029],"class_list":["post-5231","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-egypt","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-barack-obama","tag-cia","tag-egypt","tag-egypt-news","tag-hunt-down-terrorists","tag-iraq","tag-is","tag-islamic-state","tag-john-kerry","tag-news","tag-north-africa","tag-qatar","tag-saudi-arabia","tag-south-africa-today","tag-syria","tag-us-air-strikes","tag-us-campaign-against-is","tag-us-secretary-of-state-john-kerry","tag-us-led-coalition"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5231","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5231"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5231\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/188473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5231"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5231"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5231"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}