Contents tagged with French air strikes

  • France shrugs off Russian objections over air strikes on ISIS oil facilities

    France denied the accusations of Russia, which blamed Paris claiming that the French Air Forces bombed the oil infrastructure of Islamic State on Syria’s territory. French authorities called the aerial attacks relevant and necessary retaliatory strikes on ISIS militants’ positions – reported Reuters. Paris intends to cut off the extremists’ main source of income.

    Russia explained its criticism by saying that the West has no right to attack ISIS without official permission of Damascus. At the …