US Needs Broad Coalition to Fight IS Militants, Analysts Say

With President Barack Obama set to announce his strategy for battling Islamic State militants (also known as ISIL or ISIS) in Iraq and Syria, analysts say he will need to build a broad-based coalition of international and regional players to support those efforts. But they also point out it isn’t clear who those partners will be, what they have to offer, and what they hope to accomplish. “There has been some confusion on the part of this administration in terms of what the real...

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