French Air Strikes on Islamic State `In Coming Weeks`: French Defence Minister

  16 September 2015    Read: 620
French Air Strikes on Islamic State `In Coming Weeks`: French Defence Minister
France will carry out its first air strikes on the Islamic State jihadist group in Syria "in the coming weeks," Defence Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian said Wednesday.
The French air force has been carrying out reconnaissance missions over Syria since September 8, and strikes will follow "in the coming weeks, as soon as we have clearly identified targets," Le Drian told France Inter radio.

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