France will carry out 'more strikes' against IS in Syria: defence minister
Paris
France will carry out "more strikes" against the Islamic State group in Syria, Defence Minister Jean Yves Le Drian said on Monday.
"There will be more strikes, there will be more actions to protect ourselves, to prevent these training camps for foreign combattants from continuing and training terrorist actors who will come to France, or Europe, to attack us," he said on France's BFMTV.
France carried out its first air strikes in Syria on Sunday, when six French warplanes hit an IS training camp near the eastern city of Deir Ezzor.
"We struck militarily an extremely sensitive site for (IS)," he said, describing it as a "strategic hub" for militants travelling between Iraq and Syria, which also has significant petrol resources.
"We have proof that in the training camps of (IS) in Syria, foreign combattants are preparing, organising themselves not to go fight in the Levant but to carry out attacks in Europe and on our own territory," Le Drian added.
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