Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull said Tuesday there was no global support for a US-led ground force to destroy ISIS, which he called fundamentally weak with "more Twitter accounts than fighters."
Calls have been mounting in Canberra for boots on the ground in Syria to combat the threat from Islamic State jihadists and other militant groups in the wake of deadly attacks in Paris this month, AFP reports.
But after attending a series of recent global summits, Turnbull said in a national security address to parliament that there was no appetite for such a move.
"I have to report to the House that the consensus of the leaders I met at the G20, at APEC and at the East Asia Summit is that there is no support currently for a large US-led Western army to attempt to conquer and hold ISIL-controlled areas," he said, referring to another term for ISIS.