The international community should cooperate to besiege terrorism, dry out its financial resources, and demolish its networks and recruitment hubs worldwide, said Iraqi Prime Minister Haider Abadi on Thursday.

Abadi made the appeal while addressing the UN General Assembly (GA) annual debate, saying that without such cooperation, terrorism would reach everywhere and exacerbate the current refugee crisis across the world.

Calling the Islamic State (IS) an adversary to Islam, Abadi also noted that terrorism will not end until the problem of radical ideology of sectarian segregation is addressed.

"There is no choice but to cooperate to win the war against terrorism," he added.

Iraqi security forces and allied units have been battling IS militants for retaking large territories in northern and western Iraq that was seized by the IS since June 2014.

Abadi also called on the international community to end conflicts, prevent wars and refrain from policies that would intervene in internal affairs of other countries.

"Such policies lead to more suffering of people and deepened divisions in our region which still undergoes wars," he noted.

This year's high-level GA debate from Sept. 20-26 has gathered over 140 world leaders here in New York on a variety of issues, ranging from sustainable development, counter terrorism, and refugee and migrant crises. Enditem

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