US and France fight against IS on

- The United States and France have agreed on concrete steps to strengthen the fight against the terrorist group Islamic State. That made the US Department of Defense announced Sunday.

The French minister Jean-Yves Le Drian of Defense Ashton Carter and his American colleague have been in contact by telephone, said a US spokesman.

He did not mean what exactly the agreements, but rather, the US deputy security adviser Ben Rhodes said that France and the United States air strikes on will expand into Syria and Iraq.