VOA News French President Francois Hollande said Thursday that he and Russian President Vladimir Putin had agreed to exchange intelligence on the Islamic State militants and other extremist groups in Syria to maximize the effectiveness of their bombing campaigns. "We will exchange information about whom to hit and whom not to hit," Hollande said during a news conference after the two leaders met in Moscow. "What we agreed, and this is important, is to strike only terrorists and Daesh [IS] and to not strike forces that are fighting terrorism." Putin said Russia was open to greater cooperation with France and the U.S. in picking IS targets. Hollande was in Moscow on a...
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