French military leader asserts Islamic State is 'regenerating' underground

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Rear Admiral Marc Aussedat, the head of a task force that features the Charles de Gaulle nuclear-powered aircraft carrier, said reconnaissance flights are being carried out to help French forces on the ground observe the Islamic State and that weapons will be used if needed.

A French military leader said that the Islamic State is"regenerating" underground with stealth and developing its military as France is sending warships and aircraft to Syria and Iraq in order to examine the threat the group poses, theRear Admiral Marc Aussedat, the head of a task force that features the Charles de Gaulle nuclear-powered aircraft carrier, said reconnaissance flights are being carried out to help French forces on the ground observe the Islamic State and that weapons...

Aussedat said the deployment of France's warships and aircraft is to demonstrate the country's power in areas where they have"strategic interests."Rear Admiral Marc Aussedat, commander of Task Force 473 that includes French aircraft carrier Charles de Gaulle, poses in front of the vessel at the Port of Limassol on the southern coast of Cyprus, on May 10, 2021. Aussedat said that the Islamic State is"regenerating" underground.

The primary mission of the task force's five-month deployment in the east Mediterranean, the Persian Gulf and the Indian Ocean is to assist Operation Inherent Resolve, a U.S.-led mission of forces from several countries tasked with eradicating IS remnants following its three-year occupation of large swaths of Syrian and Iraqi territory.

 

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