<<BREAKiNG>>#BREAKING: REPORTS RUSSIAN AIR DEFENCE SYSTEMS LAUNCH MULTIPLE MISSILES AT UNIDENTIFIED FLYING TARGETS NEAR SYRIAN COAST

SO what's the update anything new or just this one report?

SO what's the update anything new or just this one report?

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France is also in Syria.

Support for forces opposing the Syrian government

Since August 2011, France insists, along with the U.S. and Britain and some Arab states, that the Syrian president Bashar Assad must step down, France—a former mandatory ruler of Syria—being considered by the Guardian more active and forward than the other Western countries in its policy towards the war in Syria.[111]

In 2012, France provided opposition forces with non-lethal military aid, including communications equipment and medical supplies.[124]

In August 2013, when the Assad government was accused of using chemical weapons in the Ghouta area near Damascus, Paris called for military intervention[125] but was isolated after the US president, Barack Obama, refused to act despite the breach of what he had earlier declared was a “red line”.[111]

On 19 September 2013, French President François Hollande during a press conference in Bamako suggested that France was ready to begin supplying lethal aid to the Free Syrian Army in a "controlled framework".[126] End of September 2015, France has begun airstrikes in Syria, on a small scale to avoid inadvertently strengthening the hand of president Bashar Assad by hitting his enemies.[127]

In August 2014 French President François Hollande confirmed that France had delivered arms to Syrian rebels.[128]

In mid-November 2015, in the wake of the 13 November Paris terror attacks, France, citing self-defence under Article 51 of the United Nations Charter,[129] significantly intensified its air strikes in Syria,[127] closely coordinating with the U.S. military.[130][131]

Also mid November, France drafted a UN Security Council resolution[116] urging UN members to "take all necessary measures" in the fight against Islamic State and al-Nusra Front.[117] The following day the French-drafted resolution was co-sponsored by the UK.[116] On 20 November 2015, the UN Security Council unanimously passed the French-British drafted-sponsored resolution.[117] Also on 20 November, France dismissed Russia&#8242;s suggestions that the French air strikes against oil installations in Syria were illegal, saying they were "an appropriate and necessary riposte" to attacks by Islamic State.[132]

As on 3 December 2015 the UK had started air strikes against ISIL in Syria, France welcomed that UK military action.[

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Foreign involvement in the Syrian Civil War
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