France, being part of the international coalition against the Islamic State group since 2014, has conducted airstrikes on IS positions in Syria, the first since the Assad regime fell, according to the defense minister.
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French aircraft have bombed Islamic State positions in Syria, Defense Minister Sébastien Lecornu said on Tuesday, December 31, in its first such strike on the country’s soil since the fall of Bashar al-Assad.
“Our armed forces remain engaged in battling terrorism in the Levant,” Lecornu wrote on X, while on a New Year visit to French UN peacekeepers in Lebanon. “On Sunday, French air assets carried out targeted strikes against Daesh on Syrian soil,” he added, using the Arabic acronym for IS.
The defense ministry told Agence France-Presse (AFP) that France’s Rafale fighter jets and US-made Reaper drones “dropped a total of seven bombs on two military targets belonging to Daesh in central Syria.”
