Oil-wealthy Saudi Arabia promises to lend some missing shape to a regionally focused strategy against Islamic State,but amid grave doubts approximately both human rights and its worldviewMany questions hang over the announcement by Saudi Arabia that it will lead a 34-nation coalition against Islamic State. This comes, after all, or more than a year after the US rallied more than 60 countries in a “global” effort to “degrade and defeat” the jihadi insurgency. Although there is some overlap between these two coalitions,Saudi has stressed the “Islamic character of the alliance it purports to lead – ranging from Mauritania and Chad to Pakistan and Malaysia – with a “joint operational centre” located in Riyadh.
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Source: theguardian.com