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Top congressional leaders from both parties will meet with President Barack Obama next week to discuss foreign policy and options for defeating the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant.

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.), Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.), House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) and Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) will gather with the president on Tuesday afternoon, congressional aides said on Saturday morning.

The huddle will address a wide range of foreign policy issues following Obama’s trip to Europe to attend a NATO summit this week — but beating back ISIL is likely to top the list.

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“Now that the President has conducted initial consultations with our allies, and stated his objective to degrade and destroy ISIL, it’s time to present a strategy to Congress—I hope he will begin to do that at Tuesday’s meeting,” McConnell said in an emailed statement on Saturday. “If the President is prepared to engage Congress with a strategic plan to protect the U.S. and our allies from ISIL, I believe he will have significant congressional support.”

McConnell said Obama’s plan should include plans to defeat ISIL in Syria and Iraq, where the administration is already bombing militants. Whether Congress needs to bless Obama’s plans to engage the Islamic State remains a key point of division that cuts across party lines; on Friday Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) wrote a letter to Obama insisting that Congress does need to approve further military action against ISIL.

Tuesday’s White House meeting was first reported by the Washington Post....