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Macron says France to stay ‘militarily engaged’ in Mideast in 2019
TOULOUSE, France, Jan 17, 2019 (BSS/AFP) – France will remain “militarily engaged” in the Middle East through 2019, President Emmanuel Macron said Thursday.
“The retreat from Syria announced by our American friend cannot make us deviate from our strategic objective: eradicating Daesh (the Islamic State group),” Macron said in a speech at an army base in southern France.
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