FRANCE’S foreign minister accused Syria’s government of trading with Islamic State yesterday, after Paris and Moscow agreed to fight the terror group’s oil smuggling.

Laurent Fabius told French radio that his government “believed” Syria was buying oil from the Isis rebels it is fighting, without elaborating or providing any evidence.

He ruled out French troops on the ground in Syria, suggesting that the so-called Free Syrian Army and “Sunni Arab states” could fight Isis alongside the Syrian armed forces.