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France announces big coalition air raid against IS in Iraq
(MENAFN- Arab News) PARIS: The international coalition currently battling the IS group in Iraq dropped around 70 bombs on an arsenal and militant training center in a large-scale overnight raid the French military said Friday.
'I think it's safe to say we hurt them last night. The operation is a success' France's Chief of the Defense Staff Pierre de Villiers told Europe 1 radio adding the raid took place in the Kirkuk region of northern Iraq.
France's Rafale fighter jets took part in the operation which destroyed buildings in which IS militants 'produced their traps their bombs their weapons to attack Iraqi forces' he said.
'Some 70 bombs were dropped we fired 12 laser-guided bombs and we hit our target.'
Since it announced it would take part in the US-led coalition in September France has carried out seven rounds of air strikes over Iraq but it has so far refused to join the US in its air war against IS in Syria.
Overall US and allied aircraft have flown nearly 6600 sorties in Iraq and Syria where IS controls swathes of territory and dropped more than 1700 bombs the US military said Thursday.
The air strikes have helped Kurdish militia defending the embattled Syrian border town of Kobane to hold out against the more heavily armed militants but have not stopped IS making new gains in parts of Iraq.
'I think it's safe to say we hurt them last night. The operation is a success' France's Chief of the Defense Staff Pierre de Villiers told Europe 1 radio adding the raid took place in the Kirkuk region of northern Iraq.
France's Rafale fighter jets took part in the operation which destroyed buildings in which IS militants 'produced their traps their bombs their weapons to attack Iraqi forces' he said.
'Some 70 bombs were dropped we fired 12 laser-guided bombs and we hit our target.'
Since it announced it would take part in the US-led coalition in September France has carried out seven rounds of air strikes over Iraq but it has so far refused to join the US in its air war against IS in Syria.
Overall US and allied aircraft have flown nearly 6600 sorties in Iraq and Syria where IS controls swathes of territory and dropped more than 1700 bombs the US military said Thursday.
The air strikes have helped Kurdish militia defending the embattled Syrian border town of Kobane to hold out against the more heavily armed militants but have not stopped IS making new gains in parts of Iraq.
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