French fighter jets launched their biggest raids in Syria to date, targeting the Islamic State's (IS) stronghold in Raqqa just two days after IS claimed coordinated attacks in Paris that killed more than 130 people, the Reuters website reports today (November 15, 2015).
"The raid -- including 10 fighter jets -- was launched simultaneously from the United Arab Emirates and Jordan. Twenty bombs were dropped," a defense ministry statement said.
The operation -- carried out in coordination with U.S. forces -- struck a command center, a recruitment center for jihadists, a munitions depot, and a training camp for fighters, it said.
The killing of more than 130 people in Paris on November 13 was the worst violence France has seen since World War II. Many people in France -- as well as in other countries -- are now calling for the democratic nations of the world to wage a war against Islamic fanatics in order to eliminate them from society.
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