The Latest: Danish jets will return fight IS in Iraq, Syria
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The Latest on Syria's conflict (all times local):
2:50 p.m.
Denmark says it will redeploy F-16 fighter jets to the international coalition fighting the Islamic State group in Iraq and Syria.
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Denmark joined the mission in October 2014. In August last year, it temporarily pulled back the four operational F-16 fighter jets and three reserve jets to repair them and allow the staff to recover. Instead, they sent a mobile radar unit.
After a meeting Friday with Parliament's foreign affairs committee, Prime Minister Lars Loekke Rasmussen said the country will send 400 people including air force personnel but also members of a special operations unit.
It wasn't immediately clear when the jets will be redeployed. Parliament will vote to approve the mission in April.
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Loekke Rasmussen said the alliance must fight with great force the Islamic State group "that unscrupulously terrorizes and kills innocent men, women and children."
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11:20 a.m.
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Russia's Deputy Foreign Minister Mikhail Bogdanov has met with the U.S. Ambassador to Russia John Tefft to discuss the nearly week-old cease-fire in Syria.
The Russian foreign ministry wrote in an online statement that Bodganov and Tefft met on Thursday evening at Tefft's invitation to discuss a range of issues relating to the U.S.-Russian brokered cease-fire. The ministry did not elaborate on the officials' conversation.
On Thursday, Bogdanov also met with a Syrian opposition leader, Qadri Jamil, to discuss resuming Syrian peace talks at the United Nations in the near future.
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Previously, the Russian foreign minister Sergey Lavrov said he hopes peace talks will resume in early March.