{"id":27615,"date":"2019-01-01T04:23:12","date_gmt":"2019-01-01T04:23:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=27615"},"modified":"2019-01-01T04:23:12","modified_gmt":"2019-01-01T04:23:12","slug":"israel-jails-palestinian-for-britons-killing-says-is-mentally-ill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=27615","title":{"rendered":"Israel jails Palestinian for Briton\u2019s killing, says is mentally ill"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\nAMMAN: France\u2019s defense minister arrived in Jordan on Monday to visit troops battling the Daesh group, showing Paris\u2019s determination to continue the fight after a shock US decision to withdraw from Syria.
After a stopover in Amman, where Florence Parly is set to meet with Jordanian Prime Minister Omar Al-Razzaz, she is expected to visit the H5 air base from which French fighter jets take off for sorties against the militants.
The minister\u2019s last-minute trip to Jordan comes on the heels of US President Donald Trump\u2019s surprise decision in mid-December to pull out all 2,000 American troops stationed in Syria, saying \u201cwe\u2019ve won\u201d against Daesh.
\u201cThe impromptu announcement of the US withdrawal from (Syria) caused a lot of questions,\u201d Parly told reporters before landing.
France does not \u201cfully share President Trump\u2019s analysis,\u201d she said, adding the jihadists were \u201cnot quite finished.\u201d
\u201cOur priority is to continue until the end.\u201d
After sweeping across swathes of Syria and Iraq in 2014, the militants\u2019 cross-border \u201ccaliphate\u201d has been erased by multiple offensives, pushing them back to just a few holdouts in the Syrian desert.
In Syria, Daesh has been rolled back by separate offensives led by the country\u2019s army and an Arab-Kurdish alliance backed by the US-led coalition called the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF).
The SDF are currently battling to expel the militants from their eastern holdout near Syria\u2019s border with Iraqi.
Without the help of Washington, which carries out 90 percent of the coalition\u2019s strikes on Daesh, the French government has said it will be difficult to finish the militants off for good.
\u201cThe United States plays a very important role as leader of the international coalition,\u201d said Parly, adding that it might not be \u201crealistic or effective\u201d to continue without Washington.
The French military has deployed 1,200 soldiers as part of the anti-Daesh efforts, via air operations, artillery, special forces in Syria and training for the Iraqi army.
A ranking French officer said the timeline for the US withdrawal \u201cmight not be incompatible\u201d with the capture of the jihadists\u2019 remaining territory, \u201cif it is long enough and the (SDF) advance is fast enough.\u201d
France will also have to deal with the issue of foreign militants, especially Europeans, held by the SDF, now under threat of a looming Turkish offensive to clear Kurdish fighters from its border.
\u201cThe US-led coalition has relied heavily on the Kurds as ground operators,\u201d said Parly.
\u201cTheir fate is of major concern, and there are other questions about the future of a number of prisoners they are holding.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

AMMAN: France\u2019s defense minister arrived in Jordan on Monday to visit troops battling the Daesh group, showing Paris\u2019s determination to continue the fight after a shock US decision to withdraw from Syria.After a stopover in Amman, where Florence Parly is set to meet with Jordanian Prime Minister Omar Al-Razzaz, she is expected to visit the…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":27616,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27615","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-middle_east_news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27615","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=27615"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27615\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/27616"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27615"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27615"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27615"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}