Aftermath: France pounds ISIS targets in Syria

Hours after the French national police launched an international manhunt for a “dangerous” suspect wanted for involvement in the Paris attacks, French jets began bombing ISIS targets in eastern Syria according to France’s defense ministry.
The French Ministry of Defense said it targeted a command post and a terrorist training camp, dropping 20 bombs on ISIS’s de facto capital in Raqqa, Syria. The first target included a command post, jihadist recruiting center and a weapons warehouse, the ministry said.

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Ten French fighter jets were launched simultaneously from the United Arab Emirates and Jordan in an operation carried out in coordination with U.S. military command, the French Defense Ministry said.

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