Terror Manhunt: auto Linked To Paris Suspect Found
A property in another suburb, Alfortville, has also been identified as being used by the attackers, and a vehicle is being investigated, media said.
The French Defense Ministry said, in coordination with USA forces, it dropped 16 bombs targeting a command center and a jihadist recruitment center.
Le Drian also praised Russia’s missile strikes against Raqqa.
The interior minister added that 128 raids on suspected Islamist militants had been carried out overnight on Monday-Tuesday. Thousands of troops have already been called in to help secure Paris.
ISIL allegedly mentioned the United States as their specific target its role on Syria airstrikes. Hollande will travel to Washington next week to hold talks with President Barack Obama.
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights monitoring group said on Wednesday the bombardments have killed at least 33 Islamic State militants over the past three days. “We’re all just going to have to look out for one another”.
Paris: US Secretary of State John Kerry said Tuesday that Syria could be weeks away from a “big transition”, following on from global talks in Vienna at the weekend.
Black-clad elite police were seen hauling away a naked suspect in the streets near where three suicide bombers blew themselves up outside the football stadium at the start of Friday’s attacks.
Authorities say his older brother was one of the suicide bombers.
Belgian officials have identified Abaaoud, 27, a trained ISIS fighter, as the mastermind of the attacks, serving as a middleman between the central ISIS organization in Syria and a European cell of ISIS fighters.
In response to the terrorist attacks that claimed 129 lives and injured 350, Hollande urged French lawmakers to approve a three-month extension to the country’s state of emergency, which gives authorities to strip the citizenship of French-born terrorists, reports BBC News.
French officials believe that six of the people directly involved in the attacks had spent time in Syria, CNN affiliate BFMTV reported Monday.
The increase in the terror threat for the whole country came hours after Belgian prosecutors charged two suspects detained after the assaults in Paris with taking part in a terrorist attack. It invoked an article of the EU’s Lisbon Treaty that has never been used, which states nations must provide assistance when one of its members falls victim to “armed aggression”. Following last Friday’s assault on Paris, he told reporters, “we’re in a new situation in Europe”.