Hollande Calls on U.S.-Russia Alliance to Combat Islamic State

French President Francois Hollande called on the U.S. and Russia to forge a new alliance to destroy Islamic State as he tried to rally a stunned nation behind a new drive to eradicate domestic terrorism after last week’s carnage in Paris.

   The attacks that killed at least 129 people were “planned in Syria, organized in Belgium, and carried out in France,” Hollande told a rare joint session of parliament in Versailles, just outside the capital. A global effort was needed, he said, to raze “the biggest terrorist factory the world has ever known.”

   Hollande, who vowed to increase security spending and bolster the emergency powers of the presidency, said he would meet with counterparts Vladimir Putin and Barack Obama to discuss “a union of all who can fight this terrorist army in a single coalition.”

   France will test the appetite for such a collaboration at the United Nations with a resolution that can only pass with the support of veto-carrying Russia and the U.S., which are conducting separate bombing campaigns and have clashed over political goals.

Πηγή: bloomberg.com