09 November 2017 - 09H20
Macron warns
looming military defeat of IS 'not the end'
© AFP | French President Emmanuel Macron says the
Islamic State group faces complete military defeat in Iraq and Syria within
months but warns the battle against jihadism will go on in a speech to French
naval personnel in Abu Dhabi on November 9, 2017
ABU DHABI (AFP) -
French President Emmanuel Macron said Thursday
that the Islamic State group faced complete military defeat in Iraq and Syria
within months but warned the battle against jihadism would go on.
He was speaking after Syrian troops and allied
militiamen broke into the IS-held town of Albu Kamal on the Iraqi border,
edging closer to ousting the jihadists from their last urban stronghold in the
country following their loss of Deir Ezzor, Mayadeen and their de facto capital
Raqa.
"We have won in Raqa and the coming weeks
and months, I am quite sure, will allow us to achieve complete military victory
in the Iraq-Syria theatre," Macron told French naval personnel deployed in
Abu Dhabi for the war against IS.
"But that won't be the end of this struggle.
Long-term stabilisation and combating terrorist groups will be indispensable
complements to the inclusive and pluralist political solution we want to see
emerge in the region."
Macron was in the United Arab Emirates capital
for the opening of the Louvre Abu Dhabi -- the first museum to carry the famed
brand outside France -- which he hailed as a "bridge between
civilisations" and religions.
© 2017 AFP
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