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France has begun air strikes against so-called Islamic State in Iraq from the aircraft carrier Charles de Gaulle, reports say, the BBC repots.
A number of Rafale fighter planes took off from the carrier early on Friday, news agency AFP said.
It quoted an officer on board, who said the planes would take part in an attack on Mosul, an IS stronghold in Iraq.
The Charles de Gaulle, France’s only aircraft carrier, was sent to the region earlier in September.
This is the ship’s third mission with the US-led coalition in Iraq and Syria, since February 2015, when France stepped up its military operations following the attacks in Paris.