Paris: French warplanes carried out a second wave of strikes overnight on Islamic State targets in Syria, Defence Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian said on Friday.

‘Two Rafale jets dropped bombs on an IS training camp. The objectives were accomplished,’ he told Europe 1 radio, adding that further air strikes would follow.

Le Drian said ‘80 to 90 percent’ of Russian strikes in Syria were aimed at propping up President Bashar al-Assad, Moscow’s long-term ally.

‘The Russian military action in Syria over the past 10 days does not target Daesh, their main aim is (to ensure) the security of Bashar al-Assad,’ he said.

French President Francois Hollande said this week that failure to act in Syria risks stoking a ‘total war’ in the Middle East.  

France carried out it first air strikes in Syria on 27 September.