NEW YORK (Reuters) - The taking of a French hostage in Algeria will not deter French participation in a U.S.-led coalition of nations against Islamist State militants, who have seized swaths of territory in Iraq and Syria, France's foreign minister said on Monday.
"We will do everything we can to liberate hostages," Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius told reporters. "But a terrorist group cannot change France's position."
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