President Francois Hollande of France declared that the first French airstrike against the ferocious ISIS militants had assaulted the Iraqi skies on Friday. The assault had struck a logistics yard held by the Islamic State insurgents.
As per a statement released by the Elysée presidential palace, the French official said that the aim was entirely destroyed when the Rafale fighter jets carried out the airstrike in northeastern Iraq. Iraqi military spokesperson said that four morning airstrikes killed dozens of ISIS fighters.
France is the first foreign nation and US ally to publicly declare to deliver assault on Iraqi skies targeting ISIS insurgents. The ISIS terrorist group has elicited criticisms and condemnation globally and in a unanimous UN Security Council resolution for its savagery. The operation stresses the perchance startling military activism of the Marxist French president. Francois Hollande has devoted his nation to military intercessions in Mali, Central Africa and recently Iraq. The French government has made it clear that its airstrikes will be limited to ISIS targets in Iraq and that there will be no French troops convoluted battling on the field.
According to a senior French official, France considers the ISIS militants to be a national threat to security because it has recognized over 350 French fighters. The French nation has classifies over 500 other citizens who are in transport to the battlefield or are interested in joining.
The French president also stated that other missions will follow in the approaching days with the same objective, to wane the ISIS organization and come to the support the Iraqi authorities. He added that there are always threats in taking up a responsibility, and that he reduced the perils to a minimum.
Iraqi military spokesperson Qassim al-Moussawi said that four French airstrikes hit the town of Zumar, slaying dozens of extremist fighters. Zumar and the surrounding towns are severely disputed by ISIS insurgents, albeit Iraqi and Kurdish security forces have fared to make headway neighboring with US airstrikes support.
The first French airstrike occurred on Iraqi skies when the chairman of the Joints Chiefs of Staff, US General Martin Dempsey was in France for conferences with his counterpart, General Pierre de Villiers. The two officials were visiting an American military cemetery in Normandy on the English Channel when the assault against ISIS took place.
Military spokesperson Colonel Gilles Jaron said that French jets instigated flying exploration missions over Iraq involving Rafales and an ATL2 reconnaissance plane.
While the first French airstrikes assaulted the Iraqi skies, French President Francois Hollande accentuated and emphasized at a news conference that France wouldn't go afar airstrikes and wouldn't attack targets in Syria, where the ISIS militants has also seized territory.
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