NEW YORK
The overall effort to defeat the Islamic State of Iraq and Levant is going to take time, U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry said Tuesday.
Speaking to journalists following a U.N. Security Council meeting, Kerry said the U.S. and several Arab states, as part of a more than 50-nation U.S-led coalition, conducted strikes on ISIL targets and the Khorasan Group in Syria, an umbrella name coined for Islamists opposition groups alleged to be affiliated to al-Qaeda.
Caitlin Hayden, a U.S. National Security Council Spokeswoman, defined the Khorasan Group as a network of al-Nusra Front and al-Qaida core extremists.
In order to defeat the terror group, Kerry said a multipronged approach must be used, including cutting off the group’s sources of funding.
"There are challenges ahead, but we are going to do what is necessary to take the fight to ISIL," Kerry said.
"We will not allow them to have a safe haven where they think they can have sanctuary against accountability," Kerry said.
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