French jihadists may have been killed in French air strikes in Syria

French air strikes in Syria may have killed French jihadists, a source close to Prime Minister Manuel Valls said Monday, although the defense ministry said the information could not yet be confirmed.

“The strikes have killed jihadists”.

France launched air strikes on 27th September and 9th of October in Syria against Islamic State training camps in an effort to prevent the group from carrying out attacks against French notices and to protect Syrian civilians.

“A figure of six dead was announced, probably by a Syrian non-governmental organisation,” he said.

But it added it could not “confirm with accuracy anything related to this bombing”. We were targeting foreign fighters, not French nationals in particular.a ministry source said.

Valls himself did not confirm any French deaths. “Terrorists do not have passports”.

“Anyone who joins these training camps, anyone who joins IS should know that they can now be attacked”, said Valls on Sunday.

France was shaken by a series of deadly Islamist attacks earlier this year, including the killing in January of 12 people at the office of the weekly Charlie Hebdo, which in articles and cartoons had satirised militant Islam.

Russia’s defense ministry has denied the claims, saying all its recent strikes have hit Islamic State targets in Syria.

The minister stated that, “it is not the first time, it is not the last time”, French aircraft have bombed the terrorists in Syria.