ANTALYA, Turkey — French warplanes
launched a ferocious retaliatory assault late Sunday on targets in
Raqqa, Syria — the Islamic State’s de facto capital — after coordination
with U.S. defense officials who helped with the targeting.
The
French Defense Ministry said that 10 aircraft dropped 20 bombs on
facilities used by the militant group, which has claimed responsibility
for Friday’s terrorist attacks in Paris, striking a command center, a
militant-training facility and an arms depot.
Opposition
activists reached in Raqqa said they counted at least 30 bombs, which
they said had hit, among other things, a soccer stadium, a museum and
medical facilities. They said the strikes had knocked out electricity in
the city of about 200,000 people.
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