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| France decides to stay in Syria after US troops ordered home |
| 2018-12-21 |
| [DAWN] La Belle France will maintain its participation in the coalition fighting the turban Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allaharound with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not reallyMoslems.... (IS) group in Syria, a government minister said on Thursday after US President Donald Trump ...New York real estate developer, described by Dems as illiterate, racist, misogynistic, and what ever other unpleasant descriptions they can think of, elected by the rest of us as 45th President of the United States... surprised Washington's allies by ordering US troops home. "For now of course we remain in Syria," La Belle France's European Affairs Minister Nathalie Loiseau said on CNews television, adding "the fight against terrorism is not over." "It's true that the coalition has made significant progress in Syria, but this fight continues, and we will continue it," she said. La Belle France has stationed fighter jets in Jordan and artillery along the Syrian border in Iraq as part of the US-led coalition, as well as an undisclosed number of special forces on the ground. Its allies have warned that despite losing most of the territory it once controlled during the bloody Syrian civil war, the IS threat has not been totally eradicated. French Defence Minister Florence Parly took to Twitter on Thursday to say that the IS group "has not been wiped of the map, nor have its roots." "We must definitively defeat the last pockets of this terrorist organization," she added. Earlier on Wednesday, US President Donald Trump declared that the IS group had been "beaten" in Syria and announced a stunning order to pull American ground forces from the war-ravaged nation. The momentous decision to withdraw, which runs counter to long-established US policy for Syria and the region, blindsided politicians, the Pentagon and international allies alike. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #1 If the French future in Syria matches its history in Lebanon, La Belle France assurances don't mean spit. |
| Posted by: Chereting Pelosi1889 2018-12-21 07:38 |