French
Defence Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian said the Charles de Gaulle aircraft carrier
has been installed to the eastern Mediterranean to engage further in the
country's fight against the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) group.
Le Drian said French
jets will be able to launch air strikes on ISIL targets in Syria from the
carrier from Monday - the latest military move against the equipped group which
claimed responsibility for the Paris attacks that killed 130 people and wounded
hundreds more.
France
has marched up air strikes against
Raqqa, ISIL's de facto capital in Syria, since the day after the Paris attacks
of November 13.
The fight against ISIL
is "both a war in the shadows and a war on the battlefield," Le Drian
said.
It will involve battling
a well-organised force that controls large parts of Syria and Iraq, and
"an international terrorist movement that is seeking to strike the Western
world", he added.
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