As France Seeks A Grand Coalition, Obama Is Wary Of Allying With Russia
Source: Washington Post
By Karen DeYoung and Carol Morello November 18 at 7:11 PM
French President François Hollande called on world powers Wednesday to overcome their “sometimes diverging interests” to unite in the fight against the Islamic State. On Tuesday, he will make his case in Washington to President Obama and then travel to Moscow with the same message for President Vladimir Putin.
Both say they share Hollande’s sense of urgency after last week’s attacks in Paris, and in light of the threat of similar attacks in the United States and the downing of a Russian commercial jet by a presumed Islamic State bomb three weeks ago.
In recent days, Russia and the United States have seemed almost to be competing with each other to strike militant targets in Syria. This week, the U.S. Central Command said it hit 116 tanker trucks used to transport smuggled Islamic State oil in Syria, and various targets in and around Raqqa, the de facto militant capital.
On Wednesday, the Russian general staff said its airstrikes had destroyed 500 oil tankers and that its TU-22M3 long-range bombers, flying over Iraq and Iran from a base on the border of the Republic of Georgia, struck six sites in northern and eastern Syria.
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