NEW YORK (Reuters) - French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius said on Monday he saw no legal obstacle to attacking the Islamic State militant group in Syria even as he stressed France did not plan air strikes there.
"There is not, to our way of thinking, any legal impediment to responding to Islamic State attacks in Iraq as well as in Syria," Fabius told reporters on the sidelines of the annual U.N. General Assembly.
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