Abdelhamid Abaaoud: Mastermind of the Paris attacks?

But Iraqi intelligence officials told the AP that they also shared specific details with French authorities before the attack – including the size of a sleeper cell of militants they said was directing attackers sent back to France from Islamic State’s de-facto capital in Raqqa, Syria.

Police have additional powers under a state of emergency declared after the coordinated attacks in Paris on Friday that left 129 people dead and more than 350 injured.

Britain’s Telegraph reported Monday morning that at least three arrests were made in the Toulouse neighborhood of Mohammed Merah, the gunman who in 2012 killed seven people in that city, including French soldiers, a Jewish man and three Jewish children.

Authorities say they’ve identified five of seven suicide bombers who blew themselves up in the attacks.

Stade de France – At the national soccer stadium where France and Germany were playing an exhibition match, attackers bombed two stadium entrances and a nearby McDonald’s restaurant.

One of his brothers, Brahim Abdeslam, was named by a judicial source in France as one of the attackers.

A Turkish government official said Ankara had notified France twice in December 2014 and June 2015 about Mostefai, who entered Turkey in 2013 with no record of him leaving again.

The attacks “were prepared overseas and involved a team situated in Belgian territory and who may have benefited from… complicity in France”, French Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve said after talks on Sunday with his Belgian counterpart, Jan Jambon.

An alleged plot to attack Belgian police in January, which was broken up by raids in which two men were killed in the eastern town of Verviers, also had connections to Molenbeek.

State-controlled RTBF carried a denial of a report by private broadcaster RTL that Saleh Abdeslam, a 26-year-old Frenchman based in the Belgian capital, had been detained.

France has launched fresh airstrikes against Isis targets in Syria as the Pentagon chief urged European countries to join a military coalition to defeat Islamic State in the wake of the Paris attacks.

Officials said three of the attackers were French nationals.

French President Francois Hollande, meanwhile, said the attacks “were decided and planned in Syria, they were organized in Belgium and committed on our land”.

So far, no individual or group has claimed responsibility for the attacks. His brother, Mohamed Abdeslam, who was arrested as part of the manhunt, has been released, his lawyer confirmed.

– Twenty to 30 of the victims are still unidentified.

They also agreed that fighting the IS is a priority in the course of achieving a political settlement in Syria.

An attacker at the Bataclan concert hall was identified as Paris-born Samy Amimour, 28.

The Telegraph reported that Al Mohammad is “now definitively linked by authorities to the Syrian passport found near his body” which had stamps indicating he was registered last month in Greece as a refugee.

Schools in Paris re-opened on Monday, and many museums were due to open their doors in the afternoon after a 48-hour shutdown, but a few popular tourist sites, including Disneyland, remained closed.