French Rafale streams on observation mission over Iraq. 15 Sept 2014
Rafale warrior planes have been flying observation missions over Iraq from a base in the United Arab Emirates
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French planes have done their first strikes against Islamic State (IS) activists in Iraq, the workplace of President Francois Hollande says.
An announcement said planes had assaulted an IS logistics stop in north-east Iraq.
France was at that point doing surveillance flights over Iraq and giving weapons to Kurdish warriors.
President Hollande said on Thursday that French air strikes would just focus on the jihadist bunch's positions in Iraq, and not neighboring Syria.
He likewise demanded that he would not send ground troops.
On Friday, Mr Hollande's office said Rafale planes had done the assault and "the destination was hit and totally devastated".
The announcement said different operations would proceed in the nearing days.
US warrior streams and automatons have done more than 170 air strikes on IS in Iraq since mid-August.
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