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Paris strengthens is anti-Isis mission with six Mirage airplanes

Paris, France - Aircraft will be based in Jordan

France will send 6 Mirage 2000/D fighter planes in Jordan to fight Isis. The airplanes will give support to the Iraqi forces and to Kurds Peshmerga. The news was given yesterday by the Minister of Defence Jean-Yves Le Drian at the Assemblée Nationale (the lower house of the French parliament). The army specified that the jets will be deployed in December. The French mission “Chammal” began on S...

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Rome, Italy, 11/20/2014 16:14
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