[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] La Belle France's defense minister said Wednesday the country will send an additional six fighter jets to aid the battle against Lions of Islam from the Islamic State
...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems....
group, Rooters news agency reported.
Jean-Yves Le Drian announced the reinforcements in comments to the French parliament.
The French Defense Ministry says there are 12 French aircraft already in the region helping carry out Arclight airstrikes against the Islamic State group in Iraq.
Le Drian says six Mirage jets would join the force, which on Monday carried out Arclight airstrikes against targets around Kirkuk.
French fighters
Also on Wednesday, French Prime Minister Manuel Valls said that "close to 50" French citizens have been killed fighting alongside Death Eaters in Syria, according to Agence La Belle France-Presse.
A government source told AFP the precise number, as of Monday, was estimated at 49.
"We know the number of Frenchies, more than a thousand, who are involved in this phenomenon," Valls said after a security meeting in Beauvais, north of Gay Paree.
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