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    France Launches Massive Airstrike on ISIS in Syria

    -French fighter jets launched their biggest raids in Syria to date, targeting the Islamic State's stronghold in Raqqa just two days after the group claimed coordinated attacks in Paris that killed more than 130 people, the defence ministry said.

    "The raid ... including 10 fighter jets, was launched simultaneously from the United Arab Emirates and Jordan. Twenty bombs were dropped," the statement said, adding that the mission had taken placeon Sunday evening.

    The operation, carried out in coordination with US forces, struck a command centre, recruitment centre for jihadists, a munitions depot, and a training camp for fighters. The sites targeted had previously been identified on reconnaissance flights, the statement said.

    A defence official was quoted by Associated Press as saying the strikes were "massive" and had destroyed two jihadi sites in Raqqa.

    "The first target destroyed was used by Daesh [an alternative name for Isis] as a command post, jihadist recruitment centre and arms and munitions depot. The second held a terrorist training camp," a ministry statement said.

    Reports from activists inside Raqqa suggest the airstrike targets were known Isis strongholds, including Division 17, an army base to the north of the city that had been under Isis control since July 2014...

    http://www.theguardian.com/world/201...r-paris-attack

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    KewL... now, if they could just fly over to iran and do what the US does not have guts to do... I'll quit calling them Freedom Fries and go back to calling them French Fries wit my happy meal at Mickey D's.

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