Global diplomacy in 'high gear' for ISIS fight, as Brussels extends terror alert
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Global diplomacy in ‘high gear’ for ISIS fight, as Brussels extends terror alert
Global efforts to combat ISIS gathered pace Monday as British Prime Minister David Cameron pledged solidarity during a visit to France and Russian leader Vladimir Putin met his allies in Tehran, his first trip to the Iranian capital in eight years. At the same time, U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry was in Abu Dhabi, hoping to forge a coalition of Syrian opposition groups for peace talks. Kerry hopes his Emirati and Saudi allies can pressure rebel factions into accepting a ceasefire with Assad within “a few weeks” — a step seen as crucial to refocusing the war on ISIS.
You can be confident that the diplomatic front is in high gear, with a very real plan on the table to be implemented.
U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry
Meanwhile, Brussels will stay at the highest security threat level for another week over fears of an imminent attack, but schools and the metro system will reopen starting Wednesday, the Belgian government said. As the manhunt for Salah Abdeslam, suspected Paris attacker continues, authorities charged a fourth suspect in connection with the terror assaults. Additionally, French police said an explosives belt, without its detonator, was found by a street cleaner in a Paris suburb where Abdeslam was known to have been on the night of the atrocities, but it is not known whether the vest belonged to him. A French official said laboratory analysis showed that the explosive material matched that of the seven other explosive vest used in the attacks.
