The Global Coalition is pleased to announce that Uzbekistan has become the 89th member of the Global Coalition to Defeat Daesh/ ISIS. In April 2025 Acting Coordinator of the U.S. State Department’s Counter Terrorism Bureau, Gregory LoGerfo, and Deputy Special Envoy for the Global Coalition, Ian McCary, formally welcomed Uzbekistan into the Coalition, citing the country as a valued partner in the global fight against Daesh.
Uzbekistan joins 88 other partner governments and institutions committed to tackling Daesh on all fronts. This includes dismantling its networks, countering its global ambitions, weakening its financing and economic infrastructure, preventing the flow of foreign terrorist fighters across borders, supporting stabilisation efforts and countering the group’s propaganda.
The Coalition continues to make significant progress in its mission to degrade and defeat the terrorist group, and the addition of Uzbekistan represents a further strengthening of the concerted international efforts to counter the continued spread of Daesh/ISIS globally as it transforms, including across Central and Southeast Asia. This news follows a meeting of Global Coalition ministers in Washington, D.C., in October 2024, which formally recognised the need to address the evolving threat posed by the rise of the Daesh branch, ISKP, through international cooperation.