Manama: Iraq’s top diplomat has described the global fight against the Islamic State as a ‘Third World War’.

Iraqi Foreign Minister Dr Ibrahim Al Jaafari said efforts to eradicate the extremist movement had a much greater international reach than the First and Second World Wars.

He made his comments on the sidelines of the 10th International Institute for Strategic Studies Manama Dialogue, which ended yesterday at the Ritz-Carlton Bahrain Hotel and Spa.

He said an international coalition fighting the IS was facing cold-blooded killers with no sense of boundaries.