Abdelhamid Abaaoud, the alleged Paris attack mastermind, recruited his 13-year

Following Friday’s mayhem, Paris vowed to destroy the group. The Islamic State group claimed responsibility for that attack as well. French police got hold of Abdeslam who was in a auto stopped by officers only hours after the attacks. Seven suicide bombers including Ibrahim Abdeslam, one of Abdeslam’s brothers, have died in the Friday attacks.

“The raid… including 10 fighter jets, was launched simultaneously from the United Arab Emirates and Jordan. Twenty bombs were dropped”, the Defence Ministry said. Among the targets were a munitions depot and training camp, it said.

There was no word on casualties or the damage inflicted.

The Paris attacks have galvanized global determination to confront the militants.

The attacks in Paris suggest the use of directed sleeper cells with operatives who are battle-hardened or trained in Syria, with numerous links to the multi-ethnic Brussels district of Molenbeek, a crucible of jihadist activity.

By Sunday, Belgian officials said they had arrested seven people in Brussels.

French police officers stand guard in front of the main entrance of Bataclan concert hall as the cordon is lifted following Fridays terrorist attacks on November 16, 2015 in Paris.

Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve said Tuesday that police carried out 128 police raids overnight, as he conceded that “the majority of those who were involved in this attack were unknown to our services”. He was not known to the French authorities but Belgian television reported he was known to police.

In a solemn address to a joint session of parliament in the Palace of Versailles that began with the words “France is at war”, Mr Hollande said Friday’s attacks were decided and planned in Syria, organised in Belgium and carried out in France.

“It is all so senseless”.

Also on Monday, the BBC reported that applause broke out throughout Paris after a moment of silence to honor the 129 people who died Friday night.

A Belgian auto used by the attackers led police to Molenbeek, where they arrested one of three brothers; a second brother was killed in Paris and a third is the target of a massive manhunt.

Two jihadists were killed in Verviers – identified by IS later as Khalid Ben Larbi (alias Abu Zubayr, 23) and Soufiane Amghar (alias Abu Khalid, 26). He was identified by the print from one of his fingers that was severed when his suicide vest exploded.

Salah and Brahim Abdeslam booked a hotel in the southeastern Paris suburb of Alfortville and rented a house in the northeastern suburb of Bobigny several days before the attacks, a French judicial official told The Associated Press.

Prosecutors say they believe three groups of attackers were involved in the carnage, and they do not rule out that one or more assailants may still be at large. It had allegedly been used by a migrant who passed through the Greek island of Leros on October 3 and Presevo, Serbia, on October 7, although it was later dismissed by authorities as a fake.

Belgium doesn’t have the same legal framework so Belgium won’t lock 500 people tomorrow, just like that.

While Syrian President Bashar al-Assad could not be part of the solution to the crisis, “our enemy is Daesh (Islamic State)”, Hollande said, while insisting that France was fighting terrorism and not another civilisation.

Illustrating the jittery mood in the French capital, hundreds of people gathered at a makeshift memorial in Place de la Republique scattered in panic on Sunday night when they thought shots had rung out.

Police later said people may have mistaken the sound of firecrackers for gunfire.

President Obama, before departing for the G20 Summit, convened his National Security Council to discuss yesterday’s horrific terrorist attacks in Paris. European Union leaders urged Russian Federation to focus its military efforts on the radical Islamists. The bombing of the Islamic State’s “capital” of Raqqa by France is a logical start, as is the taking back of territory by Kurdish forces backed by American air power: Without control of land, the Islamic State ceases to meet the literal requirement of a caliphate, and its romantic appeal to fanatics around the globe might start to ebb.

Abaaoud’s father Omar, who emigrated to Belgium from Morocco and now owns two clothing shops, gave an interview to a Belgian newspaper after the foiled attack, and said: “I am ashamed of my son”.