The French Campaign Begins: Hollande Launches "Massive Bombardment" Of ISIS Capital

Moments ago, reports began to surface on social media that the ISIS "capital" of Raqqa was under siege from the sky. 

It wasn't hard to guess whose planes were carrying out the strikes. As we noted ten days ago,in a statement by the French presidency following a meeting of its defense cabinet, the government said it would send its only aircraft carrier, the Charles de Gaulle warship, to the eastern Mediterranean for operations against Isis in both Syria and Iraq. And as you might imagine, that's not the only place Paris has warplanes stationed in the region.

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