BEIRUT: France’s first air strike on the Islamic State group in Syria killed at least 30 jihadists, including 12 child soldiers, a monitoring group said today.
The French air strike (on Sunday) on an IS training camp in eastern Syria killed at least 30 IS fighters including 12 from the ‘Cubs of the Caliphate, said Rami Abdel Rahman of the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights.
IS calls its child soldiers “Cubs of the Caliphate”. Abdel Rahman said foreign IS fighters were also among the dead, and that the strike had wounded around 20 people.
The raid took place in Syria’s eastern province of Deir Ezzor, near the Albu Kamal border crossing used by IS to link the Syrian and Iraqi parts of its so-called “caliphate”.
President Francois Hollande said on Sunday that six French warplanes hit an IS training camp near Deir Ezzor city, and that more strikes could follow in the coming weeks.
