Special to WorldTribune.com With an eye on Libya’s oil fields, Islamic State of Iraq and Levant (ISIL) is fighting to expand its territory beyond its coastal stronghold in Sirte. French Defense Minister Jean Yves Le Drian said ISIL jihadists have begun to move inland. “They are in Sirte, their territory extends 250 kilometers [155 miles] […]
Special to WorldTribune.com France on Nov. 17 became the first nation in the history of the European Union to invoke the EU’s mutual defense clause. French Defense Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian made the request in Brussels on Nov. 17 in the wake of the devastating terror attacks in Paris on Nov. 13. France’s request received unanimous […]
Special to WorldTribune.com French warplanes on Nov. 8 bombed an oil supply center in eastern Syria held by Islamic State of Iraq and Levant (ISIL). “We intervened in Syria… yesterday evening with a strike on an oil supply center near Deir Ezzor on the border between Iraq and Syria,” French Defense Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian told journalists at […]
Special to WorldTribune.com ABU DHABI — France has begun conducting air operations over Iraq. Officials said the French Air Force carried out its first reconnaissance operations over northern Iraq. They said the missions began on Sept. 15 in support of the U.S.-led war against Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant. “This very morning, the […]