France carried out missile strikes last weekend in Syria,
targeting Islamic State sites in the country, French Armed Forces Minister
Sebastien Lecornu said on Tuesday.
"On Sunday, French air forces carried out targeted
strikes against Islamic State sites based on Syrian territory," Lecornu
wrote on social media platform X.
The French airstrike followed a similar military strike by
the United States in Syria, which the U.S. said had killed
two Islamic State operatives.
Syria
faces an uncertain political future after the Hayat Tahrir al-Sham
(HTS) group ousted former President
Bashar al-Assad on Dec. 8.
The lightning campaign led by HTS ended a 13-year civil war,
but it has left a host of questions about the future of a multi-ethnic country
where foreign states including Turkey and Russia have strong and potentially
competing interests.