Diplomats familiar with the plans said cutting off one of Islamic State’s lifelines could be a game-changer in that corner of Syria’s complex war.
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There have been deep divisions over the fate of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad.
“The level of cooperation could not be higher”.
US Secretary of State John Kerry said today that Syria could be weeks away from a “big transition”, following worldwide talks in Vienna at the weekend.
Hollande, due to travel next week to Moscow and Washington, has appealed for a grand coalition including the United States and Russian Federation to eradicate Islamic State in Syria after the Paris attacks he said were ordered from Syria.
Kerry said he would probably call another meeting in about a month to check on the progress of defining which opposition groups would take part in a peace process.
“My sense is everybody understands that with Lebanon’s attacks, with what’s happened in Egypt, with Ankara, Turkey and attacks in Paris, we have to step up our efforts to hit them at the core where they’re planning these things and also obviously to do more on borders in terms the movement of people”, Kerry said.
Kerry was asked, “How could the US’ and the West’s expectations of ISIS be so wrong?” In his comments, Kerry drew a distinction between Friday’s attacks and the January attack against the French satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo, which extremists said they targeted for publishing cartoons of the Prophet Mohammed.
Edward Royce, R-Calif, the chairperson of the House Foreign Affairs Committee. The United States previously voiced its intention to train and arm a moderate Syrian force that would take control over the area and defend it from IS, preventing the smuggling of fighters, arms and other goods across the border. “Secretary Kerry is plain wrong and needs to correct the record”.
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Israel Public Security Minister Gilad Erdan says in a statement Tuesday that “Israel must act as an example and spearhead the struggle against radical Islam whose emissaries we saw massacring innocent people in Paris”, among other places.
