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Hollande Calls on U.S.-Russia Alliance to Combat Islamic State
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Syrian IS Targets Bombed, France Reels from Paris Attacks
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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.”