Paris - Arab Today
French President Francois Hollande said his country would send more military advisers to help the Iraqi forces in the fight against the ISIS organization.
In a speech at the Defense Ministry, Hollande said France would deploy aircraft carrier Charles de Gaulle in the autumn, the National Iraqi News Agency (NINA) reported.
"We will intensify the participation of ground forces to support the Iraqis in preparation for retaking of Mosul," he added.
"Air-naval group will be redeployed with the aircraft carrier Charles de Gaulle carrier again in the fall, because we must hit and destroy those who attacked us, here in January and November 2015," the President said, referring to the Paris attacks adopted by the ISIS that left 147 people dead.
Between 300 and 400 French soldiers are training Iraqi forces in Baghdad and the Peshmerga in Kurdistan without direct involvement in the fighting.
The aircraft carrier Charles de Gaulle has already participated twice in battles against the ISIS in Syria and Iraq, the first at the beginning of 2015 and the second after the November attacks in 2015.
Source: QNA