AMSTERDAM - The Dutch government on Wednesday will discuss contributing four F-16 fighter jets to the US-led military operation against Islamic State, national news agency ANP reported.

A special cabinet meeting was called by the government of Prime Minister Mark Rutte for later on Wednesday to consider what role the Netherlands should play in the air strikes against insurgents in Iraq and Syria.

The Netherlands was not among the nations approached by US President Barack Obama at a NATO meeting in Wales earlier this month, when he was building a coalition of allies against the hardline Islamic offshoot of al-Qaeda.