Flying out of the United Arab Emirates, two French Rafale fighter jets fired four laser-guided bombs to destroy a weapons and fuel depot outside Iraq's second city of Mosul, which was seized by the militants in June, officials said.
French President François Hollande said the airstrikes were launched in support of Iraqi, US and Kurdish forces in the region with the objective of weakening theIslamic State “terrorist organisation and come to the aid of the Iraqi authorities”.
“I want to congratulate our soldiers, our pilots in this case, who successfully fulfilled this mission,” Hollande told reporters at the Elysée presidential palace. News 24
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