The 68 members of the international coalition fighting the "Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant" (ISIL) are set to meet March 22nd in what will be the first full meeting of the coalition since December 2014, AFP reported Thursday (March 9th).
The talks, to be held at the US State Department in Washington, D.C., will be chaired by new Secretary of State Rex Tillerson.
The gathering comes as the coalition battles ISIL in the Iraqi city of Mosul and closes in on the group's Syrian stronghold of al-Raqa.
Foreign ministers will lead the political effort to prepare the ground for stabilising Iraq and Syria after the group's last military strongholds are crushed.
The ministers will update members on progress on the battlefield but also seek new ideas to fight the group's online propaganda, its spread beyond its heartland and recruitment of fighters.
On March 23rd, after the ministerial meeting, a coalition working group including military officers will meet to flesh out plans.
