Obama Calls for Broad Coalition Against Islamic State in UN Speech

President Obama urged the world leaders Wednesday to support the United States efforts in destroying the Islamic State militants.  

"The only language understood by killers like this is the language of force. So the United States of America will work with a broad coalition to dismantle this network of death," Obama said at the U.N. General Assembly in New York, reports Reuters.

"Today, I ask the world to join in this effort," he added.  Obama said that more than 40 countries have expressed their readiness to join the collation against the Islamic state, reports Reuters.

Obama denounced the Islamic State group's method of using rape as a weapon of war. He also condemned its killing of children, beheading people and the practice of dumping bodies in mass graves.

Meanwhile, the U.N. Security Council unanimously approved a resolution Wednesday aimed at checking the flow of foreign fighters to Iraq and Syria.

The resolution requires countries to frame laws that would make it a major crime for their citizens if they join militant groups. The resolution also asks the countries to prevent their citizens from travelling to the conflict areas anywhere in the world to join the fighters, reports Al Jazeera.

However, Obama said that resolutions must be put into actions to get results

"Resolutions alone will not be enough, promises on paper cannot keep us safe, lofty rhetoric and good intentions will not stop a single terrorist attack," Obama said, reports CNN.

He added that the world would become a safer place if nations followed the resolutions and cooperated among themselves.