The French president’s office said that the strikes in Syria, which began Sunday, were based on intelligence gathered from air surveillance operations conducted over Syria during the past two weeks.
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France has carried out its first airstrikes against Daesh targets in Syria, the president’s office said Sunday.
Russian President Vladimir Putin spoke to Saudi Arabia’s King Salman bin Abdulaziz al Saud about the Syria crisis on Saturrday, just two days before he is due to address the United Nations on the issue.
The operation to “fight the terrorist threat” of IS was coordinated with regional partners, a brief statement said.
Sunday’s statement called for a “comprehensive response [to the] Syrian chaos”. The statement cited “the increasing concern from Russia about thousands of Russian terrorists committing criminal acts within ISIS“, according to the broadcaster. It has however, carried out airstrikes in Iraq.
The announcement of the strikes in Syria comes the day before Hollande joins world leaders for the start of the UN General Assembly in New York, where the four-year Syrian war is expected to be at the centre of debate. And last month, three American men brought down a suspected terrorist gunman who tried to open fire on a train bound for France.
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USA TODAY reporter Kim Hjelmgaard is traveling the land route taken by many migrants from Lesbos, Greece, to Berlin.
