{"id":2486584,"date":"2025-03-29T22:02:15","date_gmt":"2025-03-29T22:02:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/news\/2486584\/"},"modified":"2025-03-29T22:02:15","modified_gmt":"2025-03-29T22:02:15","slug":"france-launches-air-strikes-on-oil-sites-near-raqqa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/news\/2486584\/","title":{"rendered":"France launches air strikes on oil sites near Raqqa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u30a2\u30a4\u30c6\u30e0 1 \u306e 2 A man walks past a damaged mosque after what activists said were airstrikes by forces loyal to Syria&#8217;s President Bashar al-Assad in Raqqa, eastern Syria, which is controlled by the Islamic State November 25, 2014. REUTERS\/Nour Fourat<\/p>\n<p>[1\/2]A man walks past a damaged mosque after what activists said were airstrikes by forces loyal to Syria&#8217;s President Bashar al-Assad in Raqqa, eastern Syria, which is controlled by the Islamic State November 25, 2014. REUTERS\/Nour Fourat<\/p>\n<p>(Reuters) &#8211; France carried out air strikes early on Friday against oil sites in Syria near Islamic State&#8217;s stronghold of Raqqa, French Defence Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian said during a visit to a military base in Jordan.<\/p>\n<p>France was the first country to join U.S.-led air strikes in Iraq. Since the Nov. 13 attacks on Paris, it has increased its aerial bombing of Islamic State in Syria, focussing on Raqqa and oil-related targets.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I have had feedback from the overnight operations, we must continue in that direction,&#8221; Le Drian told soldiers and reporters at the Jordan base from which Mirage 2000 jets took off in the early hours of Friday to conduct the air strikes.<\/p>\n<p data-testid=\"SignOff\" class=\"text__text__1FZLe text__dark-grey__3Ml43 text__regular__2N1Xr text__extra_small__1Mw6v body__full_width__ekUdw body__extra_small_body__3QTYe sign-off__text__PU3Aj\">Reporting by Marine Pennetier; writing by Ingrid Melander; editing by Jason Neely<\/p>\n<p data-testid=\"Body\" class=\"text__text__1FZLe text__dark-grey__3Ml43 text__regular__2N1Xr text__small__1kGq2 body__base__22dCE body__small_body__2vQyf article-body__element__2p5pI article-body__trust-badge__D_brm\">\u79c1\u305f\u3061\u306e\u884c\u52d5\u898f\u7bc4\uff1a\u30c8\u30e0\u30bd\u30f3\u30fb\u30ed\u30a4\u30bf\u30fc\u300c\u4fe1\u983c\u306e\u539f\u5247\u300d, opens new tab<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u30a2\u30a4\u30c6\u30e0 1 \u306e 2 A man walks past a damaged mosque after what activists said were airstrikes by forces loyal to Syri<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2486585,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[784993],"tags":[21347,762681,73796,763076,762734,61800,30357,762944,110044,50124,762694,762689,79243,219734,762733,5838],"class_list":{"0":"post-2486584","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-france","8":"tag-war","9":"tag-cwp","10":"tag-def","11":"tag-defbuy","12":"tag-europ","13":"tag-fr","14":"tag-france","15":"tag-insurg","16":"tag-iq","17":"tag-jo","18":"tag-meast","19":"tag-secur","20":"tag-sy","21":"tag-vio","22":"tag-weu","23":"tag-5838"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/wakoka.com\/@news\/114247981192044778","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2486584","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2486584"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2486584\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2486585"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2486584"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2486584"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2486584"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}