French defence 長，指導者 長，率いるs to US to 圧力（をかける） Sahel 事例／患者
Paris and 同盟（する）s consider the Sahel 批判的な for 確実にするing Europe's 安全 against jihadist 脅しs, and for stemming an unchecked flow of migrants across the Mediterranean
フラン's defence 大臣 出発／死s for Washington on Sunday hoping to 納得させる 公式の／役人s to keep US 兵士s in West Africa, where French 当局 are under 圧力 after years of trying to 支える 地元の 軍隊s against Islamic 極端論者s.
Florence Parly's visit comes just days after her 小旅行する of the Sahel 地域, a 広大な arid expanse where 明言する／公表するs have little more than 名目上の 支配（する）／統制する, 許すing jihadist 闘士，戦闘機s to 繁栄する.
Paris and its 同盟（する）s consider the 地域 ますます 批判的な for 確実にするing Europe's 安全 against jihadist 脅しs and for stemming an unchecked flow of migrants across the Mediterranean.
The 部隊d 明言する／公表するs has been a 重要な 同盟（する） for フラン's 4,500-member Barkhane 操作／手術, 供給するing 知能 and 監視 経由で drones 同様に as in-flight refuelling and logistical 輸送（する）, at a cost of $45 m illion a year.
"The American かかわり合い to the 地域 is 必須の because they 供給する 批判的な 能力s, some of which cannot be 取って代わるd," an 公式の／役人 in the French 大統領／総裁などの地位 told AFP this week.
But 大統領 Donald Trump 主張するs the US must 焦点（を合わせる） on 含む／封じ込めるing Russia and 中国, with Africa seen as いっそう少なく of a direct 脅し -- and one that should be left to フラン and the European Union.
American 軍の 長，指導者s have 確認するd they are considering a drawdown of 軍隊／機動隊s from Africa.
"I want to make sure, as we look at counterterrorism, that I first and 真っ先の am 演説（する）／住所ing 脅しs to the 母国," US 弁護 長官 示す Esper told 新聞記者／雑誌記者s this week.
General 示す Milley, chairman of the 共同の 長，指導者s of staff, has said a 決定／判定勝ち（する） on the （軍隊などの）展開，配備 of 7,000 US special 軍隊s in Africa, 特に those in the Sahel, could come by 早期に March.
"The question that we are working with the French on is the level of 成果／努力 we are supporting the French with," he said. "Is it too much? Too little? About 権利?"
- Risky 撤退 -
大統領 Emmanuel Macron 認める a US 撤退 would be "very bad news," after a 首脳会議 with フラン's five Sahel partners earlier this month -- not least because EU nations have shown little enthusiasm to join the fight.
フラン first （軍隊を）展開する，配備するd 軍隊s in 2012 to 反対する Islamic 暴動 that had 攻撃する，非難するd much Mali's north.
Since then the 操作／手術 has been 拡大するd to Mauritania, Burkina Faso, Niger and Chad, 仕事d with building up a homegrown G5 Sahel 軍隊 有能な of fighting the jihadists on its own.
目だつ US 国会議員s such as 共和国の／共和党の Lindsey Graham have 勧めるd Trump to 支持する the Africa 使節団s, 警告 of the 危険 of 増加するd terror attacks in the Sahel and beyond.
"As Florence Parly 繰り返し言うd during her 最近の Sahel visit, we have to make sure a 戦略の rebalancing doesn't 妨害する our 成果／努力s in the Sahel," French army 長，指導者 of staff 広報担当者 陸軍大佐 Frederic Barbry said last we ek.
But critics say 地元の 軍隊s remain woefully outmatched by 謀反のs who have 行う／開催する／段階d ますます brazen and deadly attacks in 最近の months.
They also point to a long history of 汚職 and 権威主義者 支配する in the 地域, which has corroded 約束 in 地元の 政府s while sapping public support for フラン's 軍の 約束／交戦.
圧力 has also 機動力のある on Paris since 13 兵士s were killed in a ヘリコプター 衝突／不一致 while 追求するing jihadist 闘士，戦闘機s in Mali last month, the deadliest （死傷者）数 for フラン's 軍の in nearly four １０年間s.
Parly is also 推定する／予想するd to discuss the 未来 of the US-led 連合 based in Iraq まっただ中に 緊張するd relations に引き続いて the US drone strike thate killed 最高の，を越す Iranian general Qasem Soleimani in Baghdad.
Paris 主張するs the 連合 must continue 戦う／戦いing jihadist 軍隊s in nearby Syria to 妨げる a resurgence of the Islamic 明言する／公表する group, which has （人命などを）奪う，主張するd 責任／義務 for a wave of terror attacks on French 国／地域 since 2015.
フラン worries that 逮捕（する）d foreign 闘士，戦闘機s held in Syria will escape if the 連合 curtails its 操作／手術s.
On Friday, thousands of Iraqis 決起大会／結集させるd in Baghdad to 需要・要求する the 追放／剥奪 of US 軍隊／機動隊s from the country, though Trump and Iraqi 相当するもの Barham Saleh agreed in Davos on the need for a continued US 軍の 役割.
