President Barack Obama has called on the world to join the US-led coalition to defeat jihadists in Iraq and Syria, branding them terrorists engaged in a "network of death."
"The United States of America will work with a broad coalition to dismantle this network of death," Mr Obama told the UN General Assembly.
"Today I ask the world to join in this effort."
The US president spoke as the United States, backed by its Arab allies, carried out a second wave of air strikes in Syria, the latest front in its campaign to destroy the Islamic State group.
"The only language understood by killers like this is the language of force," Mr Obama said in his address to the 193-nation assembly.
"We will use our military might in a campaign of air strikes to roll back ISIL," he added, referring to the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant that has since been renamed the Islamic State.
Mr Obama was among the first speakers at the podium of the week-long debate.
He will chair a special UN Security Council meeting during which a resolution will be adopted on stemming the flow of foreign fighters to Iraq and Syria.
The US-drafted resolution calls on all countries to "prevent and suppress" recruitment and all forms of assistance to foreign fighters, and would make it illegal to collect funds or help organise their travel.
Mr Obama warned "those who joined ISIL should leave the battlefield while they can."
The resolution falls under Chapter 7 of the UN charter, which means the measures could be enforced by economic sanctions or military force.
The appeal for support of the US-led effort was coupled with a call to Muslim countries to reject the ideology of radical Islam, by cutting off funding to extremists and taking aim at militant propaganda on the Internet.
"The ideology of ISIL or al-Qaeda or Boko Haram will wilt and die if it is consistently exposed, confronted and refuted in the light of day," the president said.
Appealing directly to the Muslim youth, Mr Obama declared that Islam had traditionally valued education, innovation and the dignity of life.
"Those who call you away from this path are betraying this tradition," he warned.
The United States will be a "constructive partner" with Muslim countries in the fight against radical Islam, said Mr Obama, but ultimately, this is a "task for the people of the Middle East themselves."
IS fighters battle Kurdish forces
Earlier, the IS group reinforced fighters who are battling Kurdish forces for control of a Syrian city at the border with Turkey, a Kurdish military official said.
Ocalan Iso, deputy leader of the Kurdish forces defending the town of Kobane at the Turkish border, said more IS fighters and tanks had arrived since the coalition began air strikes on the group.
"The number of their fighters has increased, the number of their tanks has increased since the bombardment of Raqqa," Mr Iso said.
IS-controlled territory in the city and province of Raqqa was hit in the air strikes by a US-led alliance yesterday.
He said IS forces had advanced to within 8km of the southern periphery of Kobane, which is also known as Ayn al-Arab - closer than they had been at any stage.
Air strikes overnight hit IS territory in Syria near the Turkish border, an organisation that tracks violence in the Syrian war said.
Rami Abdulrahman, who runs the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, said the warplanes that carried out the raids west of the city of Kobane, had come from the direction of Turkey.
He added that they were not Syrian.
The observatory gathers its information from a network of activists across Syria.
Britain 'cannot opt out'
Elsewhere, British Prime Minister David Cameron has said Britain cannot opt out of a battle against IS jihadists, as newspapers reported he was considering joining air strikes targeting the group.
"This is a fight you cannot opt out of. These people want to kill us," Mr Cameron told an interview with NBC News.
He said the militants had planned attacks in Europe and elsewhere.
"They've got us in their sights and we have to put together this coalition, working with radical support ... to make sure that we ultimately destroy this evil organisation," he said.
IS militants have killed hundreds of people in the swathes of Iraq and Syria under the group's control, forced more than one million from their homes in Iraq, and beheaded a number of foreign hostages.
Mr Cameron has given his backing to air strikes and missile attacks against the jihadist group by the United States and Arab allies, but has so far limited British involvement to arming Kurdish fighters and supportive roles.
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