Macron says France will increase support to coalition in Syria

PARIS/WASHINGTON - 26 April 2018: French President Emmanuel Macron promised to increase France’s military involvement in Syria and back the US presence in the country’s north.

Macron said at a briefing in Washington "We are fully committed, and we will continue and increase our commitment within the framework of the international coalition," Sputnik news agency reported.

"What I am committed to doing in cooperation with Americans is to provide support to the American presence in the north of Syria and in particular east of the Euphrates river."