...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling
Allaharound with every other sentence, but to hear western pols talk they're not
reallyMoslems....
sites in the country, French Armed Forces Minister Sebastien Lecornu says.
"On Sunday, French air forces carried out targeted strikes against Islamic State sites based on Syrian territory," Lecornu writes on social media platform X.
The French
...KABOOM!...
followed a similar military strike by the United States in Syria, which the US said had killed two Islamic State operatives.
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The strike was the first carried out by French forces in Syria since the fall of Bashar al-Assad’s regime on December 8 to a coalition of rebels spearheaded by the Islamist Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham (HTS).
“Our armies remain engaged in the fight against terrorism in the Levant,” Lecornu stressed.
France has been an integral part of the US-led Operation Inherent Resolve, which assists Iraqi, Kurdish, and local Syrian forces in the fight against ISIS.