Obama: We Must Dismantle 'Network Of Death'

US President Barack Obama has called on the world to join together to destroy the Islamic State terrorist group, which he branded a "network of death".

Addressing the United Nations, he vowed to keep up the pressure on the militants, arguing that they only understood the "language of force".

He spoke a day after the US and five Arab allies opened their military operation in Syria against Islamic State with more than 200 airstrikes on some two dozen targets.

The US President said IS must be 'degraded and destroyed'

Prime Minister David Cameron is preparing to recall Parliament on Friday to support UK airstrikes in Iraq.

Sky News understands that British military assets are being readied for attacks on IS.

President Obama said the US would never be at war with Islam.

"When it comes to America and Islam, there is no 'us' and 'them' - there is only 'us'," he said.

"We reject any suggestion of a clash of civilisations."

He challenged Muslims in the Middle East to reject the ideology that has allowed groups like the Islamic State to flourish.

"Ultimately, the task of rejecting sectarianism and extremism is a generational task," he said, "a task for the people of the Middle East themselves.

"No external power can bring about a transformation of hearts and minds."

More airstrikes have been carried out against IS targets by the US

He said the group had gunned down innocent children and starved religious minorities to death.

"No god condones this terror," he said. "No grievance justifies these actions.

"There can be no negotiation with this brand of evil. The only language understood by killers like this is the language of force."

The US President said America had no plan to occupy foreign lands, but would instead support Iraqis and Syrians fighting the extremists.

Mr Obama said more than 40 nations had offered to join the US-led coalition as he invited the rest of the world to join in.

"Those who have joined ISIL should leave the battlefield while they can," he said.

The US military said on Wednesday it had launched five more airstrikes targeting IS: one in eastern Syria near the Iraqi border, two west of Baghdad and two southeast of Irbil.

The first American raids on IS targets in Syria were launched on Tuesday, supported by Bahrain, Jordan, Qatar, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates.

Among the areas hit was the IS stronghold of Raqqa where it is thought British aid worker Alan Henning has been held hostage by the group.

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