PARIS (Reuters) - A member of a French paratroop regiment serving with the U.S.-led coalition of nations battling Islamic State was killed on Saturday in combat in the Iraq-Syria region, the French army said.
Some 1,200 service personnel are deployed with the French military operation in Iraq and Syria, known as Operation Chammal, launched in Iraq in 2014 and extended to Syria in 2015.
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