U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry on Thursday accoladed countries in the Middle East for working to bring political and economic vicissitude in the region. In an exclusive interview with the Alhurra network,
Kerry hailed the efforts by Arab nations to fight Islamic State terrorists. With 66 nations participating in the fight against IS, Kerry verbalized, the countries in the Middle East “are deeply engaged in this effort.” He verbalized that by collaborating, the coalition “has reliberated and re-secured 44 percent of the territory that Daesh [the Arab acronym for the jihadist group] held in Iraq and about 16 to 17 percent of the territory in Syria.” Kerry verbalized the U.S. and its allies have been taking several categorical measures to fight

Islamic State, including working to cut off funding; averting puerile people from becoming indoctrinated by establishing gregarious media initiatives to contravene the extremist group’s narrative; and reducing the flow of peregrine fighters by tightening the rules of peregrinate.