September 19, 2014

France starts airstrikes in Iraq with Rafale fighter jets


Rafale fighter jets over Iraq
Photo - JL. Brunet / Armée de l’air FB


Joining U.S. forces acting in Iraqi skies, France conducted its first airstrike Friday against the militant Islamic State group, destroying a logistics depot that it controlled, the French presidency said.
Rafale fighter jets involved in the mission struck the depot in northeastern Iraq on Friday morning, and the target was "entirely destroyed," President Francois Hollande's office said in a statement.

"Other operations will follow in the coming days," the statement said, without elaborating on the type of material at the depot or its exact location.With the strike, France becomes the first foreign country to publicly add military muscle to United States airstrikes against the group, which has drawn criticism around the world and in a unanimous U.N. Security Council resolution for its barbarity.


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Turkey is the hub of IS.

Here is a dude on a Turkish tram



Here is a Tunisian national - IS commander who was killed in Kobani, Al al Arab Syria. He entered Syria via Turkey.




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