THE HAGUE - Dutch F-16 fighter jets have bombed ISIS targets for the first time in Syria since broadening its mission in the US-led air campaign, the defense ministry said Tuesday.

"Dutch F-16s carried out around 10 missions over Iraq and eastern Syria," the Hague-based ministry said in its weekly summary of operations on its website.

It is the first time the summary has mentioned targets in Syria since the Dutch government late last month announced it was fanning out its current air support mission over Iraq into Syria, in the wake of US and French requests.

The air strikes were directed against "combat positions, military equipment and strategic aims of (ISIS)," the ministry said, without detailing when and where the attacks took place.