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France will not send ground troops to fight Daesh

November 26, 2015 at 12:53 pm

French Prime Minister Manuel Valls has said that his country will not send ground forces to fight Daesh in Syria and Iraq, Anadolu reported yesterday.

Speaking to the French parliament before a vote on the extension of French aerial operations in Syrian and Iraq, Valls reiterated the importance to support Kurdish and moderate Syrian opposition groups in their ground operations against Daesh.

Valls rejected the proposal of former French Prime Minister and current head of the French Republican Party François Fillon to support Hezbollah and Syrian regime forces against Daesh.

“It is important to support our aerial operations by supporting the local Syrian forces on the ground,” Valls said. “In this regard, we have to support the Kurds and the moderate Syrian opposition. We have to give them the needed ammunition.”

He added: “Taking part in the ground operations is illogical and fruitless.”

France has doubled its aerial operations in Syria in the wake of the Paris attacks that took place on 13 November and claimed the lives of 130 people, including dispatched aircraft carriers to the Mediterranean to launch attacks on Daesh targets.