French President François Hollande has said a coalition involved in a bombing campaign against Islamic State will "accelerate" air strikes, reports The Independent.
"The pace of the interventions will be accelerated and France will play its role in this," Mr Hollande said in a New Year's address to French and foreign ambassadors on Thursday, AFP reports.
Mr Hollande said any political negotiation to end the Syrian crisis needed to provide clarity on the future leadership of the country.
He added Paris was ready to train Libyan security forces once a government was fully in place and warned the power vacuum in Lebanon needed to be resolved urgently.
The announcement comes after defence chiefs in France pledged to intensify their fight against Islamic State in an effort to take advantage of recent battlefield gains against the terror group.
Ministers from the United States, Britain and four other countries also agreed to escalate their campaign against Isis, during talks in Paris on Wednesday.
At a news conference with French defence minister, Jean-Yves Le Drian, US Secretary of Defence Ash Carter said there was broad agreement on a co-ordinated plan to battle Islamic State over the next year and re-take key cities under the militants' control.