--- title: ISIS: U.S. Wants 68 Countries to Come Up With Anti-ISIS Plan description: The U.S. government has invited foreign ministers and senior leaders of the Global Coalition to Counter ISIS to to strategize in Washington canonical: https://time.com/4697349/isis-global-coalition-rex-tillerson/ author: Julia Zorthian article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2017-03-09T21:21:21.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-02-23T03:46:30.424Z article:section: Politics og:title: The U.S. Wants More Than 60 Countries to Help Come Up With a Plan to Defeat ISIS og:description: Secretary of State Rex Tillerson will lead the two-day conference og:url: https://time.com/4697349/isis-global-coalition-rex-tillerson/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt2dedadcf561e0ed5/6988bdcea988ca55976bb4fe/rex-tillerson-secretary-of-state-host-global-coalition.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 5184 og:image:height: 2916 og:image:alt: rex tillerson secretary of state host global coalition og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: The U.S. Wants More Than 60 Countries to Help Come Up With a Plan to Defeat ISIS twitter:description: Secretary of State Rex Tillerson will lead the two-day conference twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt2dedadcf561e0ed5/6988bdcea988ca55976bb4fe/rex-tillerson-secretary-of-state-host-global-coalition.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # The U.S. Wants More Than 60 Countries to Help Come Up With a Plan to Defeat ISIS > Sponsored content. 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Pool—Getty Images  by [Julia Zorthian](https://time.com/author/julia-zorthian/)  ## Julia Zorthian Mar 9, 2017 9:21 PM UTC The U.S. government has invited foreign ministers and senior leaders of the Global Coalition to Counter ISIS to to strategize in Washington, D.C. this month, the State Department [announced Thursday](https://www.state.gov/r/pa/prs/ps/2017/03/268332.htm). Secretary of State Rex Tillerson will host the conference on March 22 so representatives for the 68 member nations and organizations can discuss the military and support efforts against ISIS, as well as the humanitarian crises in Syria and Iraq. It will be the [first full meeting](https://www.state.gov/r/pa/prs/ps/2017/03/268332.htm) of the [Global Coalition](https://www.state.gov/s/seci/) since 2014, the [same year the group formed](http://time.com/3227918/john-kerry-isis/). The meeting follows reports out of Mosul that U.S.-backed Iraqi forces have [gained ground against ISIS in Iraq](http://time.com/4693142/iraq-troops-mosul-isis-complex/). The new administration hosting a meeting of the coalition could indicate to some members that the U.S. is still committed to using the coalition to fight ISIS, [the Washington _Post_ reports](https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/trump-administration-inviting-more-than-60-countries-for-strategy-session-on-countering-isis/2017/03/08/80ea2468-0452-11e7-ad5b-d22680e18d10%5Fstory.html?utm%5Fterm=.432de203288c). ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4697349/isis-global-coalition-rex-tillerson/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4697349/isis-global-coalition-rex-tillerson/"},"headline":"The U.S. Wants More Than 60 Countries to Help Come Up With a Plan to Defeat ISIS","datePublished":"2017-03-09T21:21:21.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-23T03:46:30.424Z","description":"Secretary of State Rex Tillerson will lead the two-day conference","url":"https://time.com/4697349/isis-global-coalition-rex-tillerson/","keywords":["ISIS","White House","Syria","Donald Trump","onetime"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt2dedadcf561e0ed5/6988bdcea988ca55976bb4fe/rex-tillerson-secretary-of-state-host-global-coalition.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Julia Zorthian","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/julia-zorthian/"}],"articleSection":"Politics","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt2dedadcf561e0ed5/6988bdcea988ca55976bb4fe/rex-tillerson-secretary-of-state-host-global-coalition.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"rex tillerson secretary of state host global coalition","caption":"rex tillerson secretary of state host global coalition","creditText":"Pool—Getty Images","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/politics/","name":"Politics"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/isis/","name":"ISIS"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4697349/isis-global-coalition-rex-tillerson/","name":"The U.S. Wants More Than 60 Countries to Help Come Up With a Plan to Defeat ISIS"}}]}] ```