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Spotlight FRANCE SYRIA Issue dated 23/09/2015

Air strikes in Syria hampered by serial issues

There is a series of very real obstacles to the air strikes against Islamic State in Syria that French President François Hollande announced France would to carry out at the beginning of September, Intelligence Online can reveal. Shortage of reconnaissance pods [...]

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