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    French jets target ISIS in Raqqa

    French jets target ISIS in Raqqa

    Published November 15, 2015 FoxNews.com



    French jets struck the heart of ISIS-controlled territory on Sunday in the first direct retaliation for Friday’s deadly terror attacks that killed 129 in Paris.

    French fighter jets dropped 20 bombs on a command and control center, jihadi recruitment center, munitions depot and ISIS training camp in the Syrian city of Raqqa, AP and Reuters reported, citing a statement from the French Defense Ministry.


    The "massive" raid was launched from the United Arab Emirates and Jordan and was carried out in coordination with U.S. forces.


    Raqqa is the de facto capital of the Islamic State's "caliphate."

    The French strikes come the same day the U.S. delivered an ammunition shipment by land to Syrian-Arab coalition forces in Syria, an American official told Reuters.

    The U.S. has conducted the vast majority of coalition attacks on ISIS territory up to this point, and has been almost solely responsible for all coalition bombings of ISIS inside Syria.

    The personal nature of Friday's attacks, which devastated France and shocked the world, changed the calculus. The official casualty toll stood at 129 dead and 352 wounded after the heinous, coordinated attacks at various public locations in and around Paris.


    French President Francois Hollande called Friday's Islamist spree an “act of war” during a nationally televised address.

    Hollande vowed France “will be merciless toward the barbarians of Islamic State group.”


    The first opportunity for payback came Sunday in an effort that included 12 aircraft, 10 of which were French fighter jets.


    ISIS, in an online statement, described Paris as "the carrier of the banner of the Cross in Europe" and described the attackers as "eight brothers wrapped in explosive belts and armed with machine rifles."

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    F-15 fighters kill head of IS in Libya: US

    November 14, 2015 5:33 PM




    Washington (AFP) - An F-15 fighter jet strike killed the head of the Islamic State group in Libya, the Pentagon said Saturday, in another high-profile US hit following the targeting of the most-wanted "Jihadi John."

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    The announcement comes as the extremist group said it was responsible for Friday's attacks in Paris that killed at least 129 people during an onslaught of bombings and shootings on the French capital, though the Pentagon said the two events were not connected.

    Washington has orchestrated an air campaign going after the IS group and senior figures in Syria and Iraq, but this is the first US strike against an IS leader in Libya.


    Abu Nabil, also known as Wissam Najm Abd Zayd al-Zubaydi, was the senior IS leader in Libya and may also have been the spokesman in a grisly video showing the execution of Coptic Christians, Pentagon spokesman Peter Cook said in a statement.


    Cook described Abu Nabil as an Iraqi national and Al-Qaeda operative.


    The footage released by IS online earlier this year showed handcuffed hostages wearing orange jumpsuits being beheaded by black-suited captors in a coastal area the group said was in the Libyan province of Tripoli.

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    "Nabil's death will degrade ISIL's ability to meet the group's objectives in Libya, including recruiting new ISIL members, establishing bases in Libya, and planning external attacks on the United States," Cook said.

    "While not the first US strike against terrorists in Libya, this is the first US strike against an ISIL leader in Libya and it demonstrates we will go after ISIL leaders wherever they operate."


    The Pentagon spokesman said the operation overnight against Abu Nabil was "authorized and initiated prior to the terrorist attack in Paris."


    Oil-rich Libya descended into chaos after the fall of Moamer Kadhafi in its 2011 revolution.


    IS jihadists are killing more civilians than other warring factions in the North African country, but all sides are committing "large-scale crimes," International Criminal Court chief prosecutor Fatou Bensouda has said.


    The UN has been brokering talks to create a new unity government to end fighting between the army and the militias that seized Tripoli, with the UN envoy to Libya voicing hope that an agreement is imminent.


    Saturday's US announcement came two days after the US military conducted a strike targeting the IS executioner known as "Jihadi John."


    The US has said it is "reasonably certain" that the militant was killed in a drone strike in Syria.


    Mohammed Emwazi, whose masked figure appeared in a string of graphic videos showing the beheading of Western hostages, was targeted in a combined British-US operation in Raqa, the de facto IS capital in war-torn Syria.


    According to a US official, the attack against Abu Nabil was carried out by US F-15 fighter jets.


    The aircraft are the same kind deployed in June to carry out another air strike in Libya which aimed to kill one-eyed Islamist leader Mokhtar Belmokhtar, who was linked to Al-Qaeda.


    The militant's death has never been confirmed with certainty.

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    Sun Nov 15, 2015 2:17pm EST

    Exclusive: U.S. delivers ammunition to Syrian Arab fighters battling Islamic State

    WASHINGTON | BY PHIL STEWART

    Fighters from a coalition of rebel groups called ''Jaish al Fateh'', also known as ''Army of Fatah'' (Conquest Army), rest with their weapons near Zeyzoun thermal station in al-Ghab plain in the Hama countryside July 29, 2015.
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    The United States has carried out a fresh delivery of ammunition to fighters from the Syrian Arab Coalition battling Islamic State in northern Syria, pushing ahead with a strategy that initially unnerved ally Turkey, a U.S. official told Reuters on Sunday.

    The delivery of ammunition represented only the second time the United States has moved to arm the Syrian Arab Coalition, a collection of about 10-12 groups numbering about 5,000 fighters. They are working with Kurds and others to claw back land from Islamic State.


    In a shift in approach, the latest U.S. resupply operation was completed on Saturday by delivering the weaponry by land, the U.S. official said, speaking on condition of anonymity.


    It was not immediately clear who transported the ammunition into Syria, but the official said American troops did not drive them into the country.


    Further details on the operation were not immediately available.


    The first U.S. delivery of ammunition to the group on Oct. 11 was carried out through an air drop. That triggered questions about how the United States could be certain the weaponry reached the right people, despite reassurances from the Pentagon.


    NATO ally Turkey, which is wary of further advances by Syrian Kurdish YPG militia, registered its unease after the first air drop. It called in the U.S. ambassador to express concern that Washington's arms drops were aiding Syrian Kurdish militias.


    Turkey, which has its own large Kurdish minority, objects to empowering those militias, although they have been the most effective U.S.-allied force against Islamic State in Syria.


    The U.S. official said the United States was certain that the latest delivery reached the intended individuals.


    The U.S. military declined comment on the operation.

    Captain Jeff Davis, a Pentagon spokesman, said only that the United States had signaled its intent to support Syrian Arabs battling Islamic State, and continued to do so.


    Washington's strategy in Syria has shifted from trying to train fighters outside the country to supplying groups headed by U.S.-vetted commanders.


    The United States has also announced it would send dozens of U.S. special operations forces in the coming weeks to northern Syria to advise those opposition fighters combating Islamic State.


    The U.S. military, when it carried out its first air drop of ammunition last month to the Syrian Arab Coalition, said it was going to make sure the weaponry was used correctly before providing additional arms.


    The U.S. military later expressed confidence that the ammunition helped the Syrian Arab Coalition as they and other forces branding themselves collectively as the Democratic Forces of Syria took back a big swathe of territory around the village of al-Haul.


    The U.S. official said the new delivery of weapons would help the fighters push further south into Islamic State-held territory.

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