<p>Officials familiar with the situation say that NATO has agreed to join the US-led anti-ISIS coalition on an alliance level, with indications that Germany and France were the last nations to agree to the formal move, <a href="http://www.dw.com/en/nato-will-formally-join-anti-islamic-state-coalition/a-38585836" type="external">which will be announced during the Brussels summit</a>.</p> 
<p>All NATO members are already individually members of the anti-ISIS coalition, and diplomats say that the move will have no actual consequence, and seemingly is being done just for the sake of a &#8220;purely symbolic&#8221; gesture during President Trump&#8217;s visit.</p> 
<p>President Trump has always been keen to bring NATO deeper into the ISIS war, of course, and has made a big deal about NATO&#8217;s obsolescence because it wasn&#8217;t formed specifically to deal with terrorism, claiming in April that &#8220; <a type="internal">back when they did NATO there was no such thing as terrorism.</a>&#8221;</p> 
<p>While shortly after his election most NATO officials were just attacking Trump for being too &#8220;pro-Russia,&#8221; recently they seem to be eager to please him, so long as it only requires symbolic actions that won&#8217;t amount to anything.</p> Last 5 posts by Jason Ditz
NATO Agrees to Formally Joint Anti-ISIS Coalition