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Thursday, January 21, 2016
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Thursday, January 21, 2016
Hollande: Airstrikes on IS in Iraq, Syria to be ‘accelerated’
Add ToI as a Preferred Source on GoogleFrench President Francois Hollande says the coalition waging a bombing campaign against the Islamic State group will “accelerate” its airstrikes.
“The pace of the interventions will be accelerated and France will play its role in this,” Hollande says in a Paris speech to ambassadors.
His comments come after yesterday’s meeting by the defense ministers of seven countries in the coalition, who say their strategy is to free the IS “power centers” of Raqqa in Syria and Mosul in Iraq.
“They also decided to reinforce support to Arab and Kurdish forces fighting Daesh on the ground,” Hollande says, using an alternative name for IS.
— AFP
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