SYDNEY: Prime Minister Tony Abbott on Monday defended Australia's military involvement in battling Islamic State militants, calling the jihadist group a "death cult" involved in ethnic cleansing.

Australia on Sunday agreed to help the United States in an international effort to transport weapons to Kurdish forces fighting the IS in northern Iraq, as well as humanitarian air drops to the besieged town of Amerli.

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