IS group redeploying as underground network, warns French minister

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French defence minister Florence Parly has warned that the fight against the so-called Islamic State group, which has lost most of the territory it once controlled in Iraq and Syria, is far from over as it is re-organising itself into an underground terrorist network.

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In an interview with FRANCE 24, French defence minister Florence Parly discussed the fight against terrorism, in Syria and Iraq as well as in Africa, warning that the Islamic State (IS) group is morphing into "an underground terrorist organisation" even as it is chased out of its bastions.

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