West to ‘crush ISIS power centers’

PARIS: Western leaders injected fresh urgency into the fight against the Islamic State group Wednesday, vowing to destroy its “power centers,” while Russia announced crucial Syrian peace talks would begin within days.

After meeting with key allies in Paris, US Defense Secretary Ashton Carter vowed to crush what he called the IS “cancer” by “collapsing its two power centers in Raqa and Mosul” and combating “the metastasis of the ISIL tumor worldwide.”