French and US fighter jets flatten IS bomb-making facility

May 2, 2016 06:25

According to Reuters, on May 1, the French Defense Ministry said that French and US fighter jets destroyed an Islamic State (IS) facility in Iraq, which was used by Sunni extremists to manufacture bombs and vehicles in large quantities to carry out suicide attacks.

Hiện trường một vụ đánh bom xe ở thành phố Samawa, Iraq, do Is tiến hành ngày 1/5. (Nguồn: AFP/TTXVN)
The scene of a car bomb attack in Samawa city, Iraq, carried out by IS on May 1. (Source: AFP/TTXVN)

"The destroyed facility is located in the town of Al-Qaim on the Iraq-Syria border, and required two separate airstrikes to destroy it due to its large area," the ministry said in a statement.

The two airstrikes took place on April 29 and 30./.

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