U.S. President Barack Obama speaks as he meets in New York with representatives (not pictured) of the five Arab nations that contributed in air strikes against Islamic State targets in Syria, September 23, 2014. REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Arabs are in. Turkey is on the fence. Britain, still smarting from an earlier Iraq war, is cautiously edging toward expanded action. Even Greece wants to help - if someone would tell it how.
Two weeks after he announced plans to form a "broad coalition" to fight the militant group Islamic State, President Barack Obama's hopes for international support for actions in Iraq and Syria appear to be gelling.
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