November 2026
Open Diplomacy - Meeting Between the Members of Combined Joint Task Force - Operation Inherent Resolve
Started in June 2014 in response to the rise of ISIS, CJTF - OIR is that combined task force responsible for coordinating coalition efforts to destroy the Islamic State's presence in Iraq, Syria, and, for a few months in 2016, Libya. While the threat posed by IS declined following the collapse of their territorial control in Iraq (2017) and Syria (2019), IS is once again becoming active in the Middle East, using the chaos of the Saudi Arabian Civil War to infiltrate fighters across the border to hold territory near the Jordan-Iraq-Saudi Arabia tri-point and harry GCC and NACL forces in their attempts to defeat the ongoing Islamist rebellion within the country.
Since CJTF - OIR never ended, the United Arab Emirates is requesting that the other members of the CJTF--namely, the United States, France, Canada, the Netherlands, Denmark, Belgium, and Jordan--use their assets still deployed in the area to help defeat Islamic State assets in northern Saudi Arabia and Anbar Province within Iraq. Such an intervention is critical to maintain the security of Saudi Arabia and the global oil supply.
