PARIS (Reuters) - French fighter jets destroyed 12 buildings in
Iraq holding an
arsenal of
******* under control of Islamic State militants, France's chief of staff of armed forces said on Friday. "Tonight we undertook a big operation in
Iraq in which we destroyed buildings in which Daesh (Islamic State) was producing traps, bombs, arms to attack the Iraqi forces," Pierre de Villiers told Europe 1 radio.
France was the first country to join the U.S.-led coalition in air
strikes on IS insurgents in
Iraq in September and has stepped up the pace of its air
strikes this month. ...
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