Paris (AFP) – France’s president on Thursday rejected any cooperation with Bashar al-Assad whom he accused of being a “de-facto ally” of jihadists wreaking havoc in Syria and Iraq, and urged a “humanitarian and military” response to the threat.Speaking at an annual Paris gathering of ambassadors from around the world, Francois Hollande touched on crises in both countries as well as those rocking Ukraine and Libya — all of which he said affected France directly.”At the heart of the Middle East, a barbaric organisation is attempting to become a state to impose a caliphate,” he said of the Islamic State …read more
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