Obama to Meet Officials of Arab Coalition Allies in New York

President Barack Obama will meet representatives of the five Middle Eastern nations that supported the first U.S. strikes in Syria later on Tuesday, his spokesman said.

Obama will see the officials from Saudi Arabia, Jordan, the UAE, Bahrain and Qatar after he arrives in New York for the United Nations General Assembly meetings, White House spokesman Josh Earnest told reporters on Air Force One.

The meeting will be convened by US Secretary of State John Kerry, who is already in New York.

Deputy U.S. national security advisor Ben Rhodes told reporters that it had been important to "see that there are a broad number of Arab partners who are with us."

Earlier, Obama said in a statement that the support of U.S. Arab partners in the strikes against the Islamic State group and the Khorasan Al-Qaida franchise in Syria proved that America was not alone in its new Middle Eastern campaign.