France's Hollande says Assad no ally in fight against Islamic State


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  • Thursday, 28 Aug 2014

French President Francois Hollande walks in the Elysee Palace in Paris following the weekly cabinet meeting after a government reshuffle, August 27, 2014. REUTERS/Philippe Wojazer

PARIS (Reuters) - French President Francois Hollande said on Thursday opposition forces fighting Islamic State militants in Syria and Iraq should get more Western support but ruled out seeing Syrian President Bashar al-Assad as an ally.

Calling Assad an ally of the jihadists, he said: "There is no choice to be made between two barbarisms."

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