Riyadh, Sep 11 (IANS) A regional meeting at the foreign ministers' level to formulate a strategy to counter terrorism, particularly the threat from the Islamic State (IS) Sunni extremist group, in the Middle East began Thursday in the Saudi Arabian city of Jeddah. The meeting, hosted by Saudi Arabia, is being attended by foreign ministers of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC), Egypt, Iraq, Turkey, Jordan and Leba**n as also US Secretary of State John Kerry, the Saudi Press Agency reported. The GCC comprises Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates.