French warplanes bombed an "Islamic State" (ISIS) communications hub near Mosul in northern Iraq overnight, Defense Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian said Thursday.
"Last night we bombed a Daesh telecommunications center, a propaganda centre, near Mosul," Le Drian told BFMTV, using an Arabic acronym for the ISIS terrorists. "We have struck seven times since Monday," Le Drian said of the French bombing campaign in Iraq and Syria.
"Daesh is pulling back in Iraq" where it has lost control of the cities of Sinjar and Ramadi, Le Drian said.