Hollande calls on US-Russia alliance to combat Islamic State

A global effort was needed, Hollande said, to raze “the biggest terrorist factory the world has ever known”

French president Francois Hollande Pic: Bloomberg

French President Francois Hollande called on the US and Russia to forge a new alliance to destroy Islamic State as he tried to rally a stunned nation behind a new drive to eradicate domestic terrorism after last week’s carnage in Paris.

The attacks that killed at least 129 people were “planned in Syria, organised in Belgium, and carried out in France,” Hollande told a rare joint session of parliament in Versailles, just outside ...