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France strikes ISIS in Iraq

Holds crisis meeting after brutal hostage killing in Algeria

AFP, Paris
France carried out a fresh round of air strikes in Iraq yesterday as it renewed its determination to fight ISIS jihadists after the beheading of hostage Herve Gourdel.
Meanwhile, Paris yesterday said it had widened its vigilance alert for nationals abroad from 31 to 40 countries including Asian nations.
President Francois Hollande pledged "determination, composure and vigilance" in the face of jihadi threats at a cabinet meeting and announced that flags nationwide would be flown at half-mast for three days from Friday to mourn the loss of the 55-year-old mountaineer.
"Faced with this threat, we need national unity," he told the meeting, according to government spokesman Stephane Le Foil, who also announced France had carried out air strikes in restive Iraq yesterday morning -
- the second in the space of a week.
France opposed the 2003 US-led invasion of Iraq but was one of the first to sign up for an active role in the campaign against the IS group that has rampaged through large areas of Iraq and Syria.
Paris has six Rafale fighter jets and just under 1,000 soldiers based in the United Arab Emirates, and yesterday carried out its firstair strike on IS targets in Iraq, destroying a logistics depot.
As the cabinet meeting ended, Hollande went straight into crisis defence talks during which, Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius has said, “everything would be looked at again," including "what we want to do in Iraq and what will happen in Syria."
France has vowed to conduct aerial operations against Iraq in support of local forces fighting IS but has stressed it will not deploy ground troops, nor will it expand operations to Syria, as the United States has done.
US, Saudi and Emirati warplanes bombed oil installations in eastern Syria overnight in a bid to cut off a significant source of funding forthe IS group.
However, Defence Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian seemed to open the door to possible action in neighbouring Syria, telling French radio yesterday it was "a question that had to be asked."
Gourdel's public execution at the hands of ISIS-linked Algerian group Jund al-Khilifa, or "Soldiers of the Caliphate," sparked global outrage and an outpouring of grief and anger in France.
Gourdel was kidnapped on Sunday while hiking in a national park in eastern Algeria that was once a magnet for tourists but later became a sanctuary for Islamists.
His abduction came shortly after the ISIS group urged militants to "kill a disbelieving American or European - especially the spiteful and filthy French."