Russian Federation ‘launches cruise missiles’ at Isis stronghold of Raqqa in Syria

Police also discovered two places in Paris where the militants probably stayed before the violence and also found a third vehicle abandoned in the city that was used in the operation.

In the United Kingdom, Prime Minister David Cameron told MPs that British forces should attack the “head of the snake” and said he would make the case for bombing in Syria. “It must be strengthened in such a way so that the terrorists will understand that retribution is inevitable”.

French warplanes targeted a command post and a recruitment center for jihadists in the ISIL stronghold of Raqqa in the second consecutive night of strikes ordered by President François Hollande, a military command spokesman told Reuters.

On Monday, French President Francois Hollande called on Russian Federation and the United States to join France in combating the Islamic State in Syria.

“As we learned in 1941, national emergency can create odd bedfellows”, Coats said in remarks on the Senate floor.

Russian Federation has been launching air strikes on Isis in Syria since the end of September, although it has faced accusations of targeting moderate Syrian rebels in a bid to support regime forces.

“Russia is shifting because today Russian cruise missiles hit Raqqa”.

“We are weeks away conceivably from the possibility of a big transition for Syria”, Kerry said, hailing the advances in the political process as a “gigantic step”.

A French government source said Russian Federation hit targets in the same area, a day after Mr Hollande appealed to Washington and Moscow to join in a grand coalition to fight the Islamist group that controls swathes of Syria and Iraq.

The 28 European Union member states accepted the French request but it was not immediately clear what assistance would be forthcoming.

Earlier, bomb fears had prompted German police to call off a soccer match between Germany and the Netherlands in Hanover two hours before kick-off.

One of the targets Friday was outside a Paris stadium where France was playing Germany in a friendly match.

Sen. Dan Coats, an Indiana Republican who has pushed for tough economic sanctions against Russian Federation over Ukraine, said the heightened sense of crisis since the Paris attacks last week might require the two countries to put aside their differences in the war against the Islamic State.

Police issued a photograph of the militant and asked the public for help in identifying him.

Abdeslam drove back to Belgium from Paris early Saturday with two friends, who have both been detained.

The hardening of military efforts against IS come as French and Belgian police continued their hunt for associates of the Paris attackers.

IS has repeatedly urged assaults on France which has seen a litany of attacks and foiled attacks since January, from a man who beheaded his boss to another who was overpowered as he opened fire on a high-speed train.

He said the USA got a “military notification” that Russian Federation was attacking Raqqa, but said that’s not the same thing as coordination.

Cazeneuve told France Info radio police were making rapid progress in their investigation but declined to give details.

Russia finally confirmed Tuesday that the Russian passenger jet that crashed in Egypt last month with the loss of 224 lives had been brought down by a bomb in an attack claimed by IS.

Planes from the Russian base in Syria have bombed a few 150 targets across the war-torn country. Shadi and other Raqqa residents said that – aside from the moral objections – such a plan made little sense: Islamic State fighters in Raqqa seem more concerned about the ground offensive being prepared by Kurdish militias.