France bombs ISIS headquarters

Hollande said France should strip dual nationals of their French citizenship if they are convicted of terrorism, and that dual nationals who present security risks should be banned from entry into France.

State run Pakistan Television says Sharif condemned the attacks and promised to cooperate with France in the fight against terrorism. “When France started striking Syria, it knew it would pay the price for it. Maybe they weren’t all that prepared for it. Now they must invent the response, because it’s a new kind of war”.

After the initial wave of attacks, french President Francis Hollande pledged to intensify further his country’s airstrikes against the terror group. We gained more territory.

In a new video on Monday, a man claiming to represent IS said that countries taking part in air strikes against Syria would suffer the same fate as France, and threatened an attack in Washington.

Despite four devastating bombings attributed to the Islamic State in the past five weeks – in Ankara, Turkey; Sharm al Sheikh, Egypt; Beirut and now Paris – Obama seemed wedded to the current US strategy of airstrikes to weaken the Islamic State. He is due to meet Hollande on Tuesday morning.

Officers also moved in, guns drawn, after mourners panicked near the Carillon bar, where crowds have laid flowers and lit candles in memory of the 15 people killed there. Children went to school and the Eiffel Tower reopening to tourists after a two-day shutdown.

In all, three teams of attackers including seven suicide bombers attacked the national stadium, the concert hall and nearby nightspots.

“For the second time in 24-hours the French military conducted an air raid against Daesh in Raqqa in Syria”, the statement said.

“These weren’t specific targets”, the French official said, “rather, ideas of places to strike, so as to spread fear everywhere”.

Interior minister Bernard Cazeneuve said: “This is just the beginning”.

A few detailed measures include the creation of 5,000 new jobs in the country’s security forces and an addition of 2,500 in prison staff. They also said they had arrested 23 people and detained 104 others under house arrest.

The French president asked parliamentarians to extend the 12-day state of emergency declared on Friday night for three months.

CIA Director John Brennan warned on Monday that Islamic State militants may have similar operations ready to launch, but foiling those plots could prove hard because Europe’s intelligence and security resources are severely stretched.

At the Group of 20 summit, now underway in Turkey, French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius said, “France has always said that because she has been threatened and attacked by [IS], it would be normal to react in the framework of self-defence”.

RTL Radio said Abaaoud was a 27-year-old from the Brussels district of Molenbeek, home to many Muslim immigrants and a focal point for Islamist radicalism in recent years.

His younger brother, 26-year-old Salah Abdeslam, is now being sought by French investigators who have issued a photograph of him – describing him as “dangerous” – while Belgium has issued worldwide warrant for his arrest. Two people died in the assault.

The official, who has direct knowledge of the police investigation but is not authorized to speak publicly about the probe, said Abaaoud also is suspected of overseeing two thwarted attacks earlier this year on a Paris church and a Paris-bound train. His radicalisation underlined the trouble police face trying to capture an elusive enemy raised in its own cities.

Latest official figures estimate that 520 French nationals are in the Syrian and Iraqi war zones, including 116 women.

An attacker who blew himself up outside the national soccer stadium was found with a Syrian passport with the name Ahmad Al Mohammad, a 25-year-old born in Idlib, the prosecutor’s office said. Police said they were still checking to see if the document was authentic, but said the dead man’s fingerprints matched those on record in Greece. The holder of the passport was later registered as crossing from Macedonia into Serbia where he formally applied for asylum, Serbian officials said.

His role in the mission has reignited a fierce debate in Europe about how to tackle a continuing influx of refugees, with anti-immigrant parties calling for borders to be closed against the flood of newcomers fleeing the Middle East.

He said Syria had become the “biggest factory of terrorists” the world has ever known and a unity of force is needed to bring IS down.

The Paris attacks on Friday, claimed by IS, have galvanized global determination to confront the militants.