France has called for a meeting of the US-led international coalition against the Islamic State (IS) over the “revival” of the group in Iraq.
“What we can note about the situation in Iraq in particular is that is a powerful revival of Daes (the Arabic acronym for the Islamic State organization), French Foreign Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian said today before the Foreign Affairs Committee of the National Assembly.
“This makes us call together with the Iraqi authorities, the so-called Coalition Against Daesh, which has not met for a long time, to meet again to strengthen sovereignty and stability in Iraq,” he said.
“This coalition should be able to meet soon enough and I think that will happen,” he added.
Islamic State has occupied large swathes of Syrian and Iraqi territory since 2014. Despite its defeat in Syria in March 2019 with the fall of its “caliphate”, the IK continues to launch deadly attacks in Syria and Iraq.
Thirty-two people were killed on January 21 by two suicide bombers who blew themselves up in a market in central Baghdad in the deadliest attack in more than three years in the Iraqi capital.
Just before leaving the White House, Donald Trump reduced the US military presence in Iraq to 2,500 men.
France, which is also part of the international coalition, has since called on new US President Joe Biden to continue fighting the IC as a priority.
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