WASHINGTON: The Vatican’s envoy to the United Nations in Geneva has endorsed military action against the Islamic State group in Iraq and Syria—an unusual move because the Vatican traditionally has opposed force in the region.

In an interview with the US Catholic website Crux, Archbishop Silvano Tomasi said IS fighters were committing atrocities on a huge scale and the world needed to intervene.

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