PARIS ATTACKS: France launches ‘massive’ air strikes on Islamic State

France launched “massive” air strikes on the Islamic State group’s de facto capital in Syria, destroying a jihadi training camp and a munitions dump in the city of Raqqa, where Iraqi intelligence officials say the attacks on Paris were planned.

A dozen aircraft, including 10 fighter jets, dropped a total of 20 bombs in the biggest air strikes since France extended its bombing campaign against the extremist group to Syria in September, a defence ministry statement said. The jets launched from sites in Jordan and the Persian Gulf.

On the sidelines of the G20 summit in Turkey, France’s foreign minister Laurent Fabius said his country was justified in taking action in Syria.