The USA and France today agreed on intensifying their joint concrete military actions against the dreaded Islamic State militant group, the Pentagon said today.
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U.S. Secretary of Defense Ashton Carter told French Minster of Defense Jean-Yves le Drian in a telephone call on Saturday that the USA stands with France in the wake of a string of deadly terrorist attacks in Paris and that the US military would take “additional steps” to respond to the brutal attacks.
Carter said the DOD is “committed to helping France in any way”, according to Pentagon press secretary Peter Cook.
Carter reiterated “the firm commitment” of the United States to support France and move together to ensure IS was dealt “a lasting defeat”, the spokesman said. The announcement gave no points of interest on the measures to be taken. The U.S. delegate national security guide, Ben Rhodes, said the United States and France likewise will be escalating insight sharing.
“ISIL and its followers continue to use social media in an attempt to incite violence around the world, including in the United States”, US Assistant Attorney General John Carlin said in a statement on Thursday. Earlier, President Barack Obama pledged USA assistance to French authorities and vowed to join France and other nations to bring the terrorists to justice and to “go after any terrorist networks that go after our people”.
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“As the president said tonight, in this moment of tragedy the United States stands with the people of France and its vibrant, multi-cultural democracy”.
