France Seeks Global Meeting on Islamic State Group

French President Francois Hollande has called for an international conference to discuss the militant group Islamic State that has seized territory in Iraq and Syria. Hollande told the Le Monde newspaper Wednesday there needs to be a "global strategy" to address the group he called well-structured, well-financed and armed with sophisticated weapons. The threat posed by the Islamic extremists to the international community is "the most serious since 2001," Hollande...

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