HAPPENING NOW: "Our fight against ISIS continues, and it will be here for the foreseeable future. We cannot rest" says @SecPompeo to open D-#ISIS ministerial, adding ISIS sees no borders
.@SecPompeo calls for coalition partners to contribute to goal of $700 million for the anti-#ISIS fight for 2020, and to pay to hold #foreignfighters in prison
"We are counting on this Coalition to fund the secure and humane detention of the thousands of #foreignterroristfighters in custody in #Syria and #Iraq" per @SecPompeo
Pompeo urges more countries to follow #Italy #Germany & repatriate their foreign fighters, try them in court
NEW: D-#ISIS ministerial appears to reject pleas by #SDF, other official from the Autonomous Administration of North and East of Syria to put #foreignfighters on trial there
Coalition members "commit to pursue existing effective accountability mechanisms" per communique
Anti-#ISIS coalition members promising to move ahead w/plans to take on #ISIS in West #Africa & the #Sahel
Per communique, effort would focus on “capacity building…upon the request & prior consent of the countries concerned, & be coordinated w/existing efforts & initiatives”
.@SecPompeo first raised idea of West #Africa, #Sahel as the next target for the coalition's fight vs #ISIS last November
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