France launches major air strikes against ISIS in Syria

Salah rented a black Volkswagen Polo used by a group of hostage-takers who killed at least 89 people dead inside the Bataclan concert hall.

The Islamic State group has claimed responsibility for the attacks. Prior to this, CNN reported, Iraqi intelligence revealed an attack had been ordered by ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi on countries fighting the ISIS, although no specific dates or names of places were included.

The Associated Press also reported that a major action with heavily armed police is underway in the Brussels neighborhood of Molenbeek amid a manhunt for a suspect of the Paris attacks.

“We are making use of the legal framework of the state of emergency to question people who are part of the radical jihadist movement… and all those who advocate hate of the republic”, Valls said. His current whereabouts are unknown. He was reportedly stopped by officers in the wake of the attacks while crossing into Belgium but then let go.

Their brother Brahim Abdeselam was one of the suicide attackers who caused carnage in Paris, blowing himself up outside a bar on Boulevard Voltaire.

– Passport puzzle: Authorities say they still trying to determine whether a Syrian passport linked to one of the attackers, who is believed to have entered Europe among the flow of migrants into Greece, is authentic.

According to French television reports, Abdelhamid Abaaoud has been seen as public enemy number 1 in Belgium where he masterminded multiple attacks. It’s also unclear whether any of the terrorists’ accomplices are still at large.

French Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve said authorities carried out 128 anti-terrorism police sweeps Monday and Tuesday.

Abaaoud was also named in various media past year as the elder brother of a 13-year-old boy who left Belgium to become a child-fighter in Syria. Its statement mocked France’s air attacks on suspected IS targets in Syria and Iraq, and called Paris “the capital of prostitution and obscenity”.

French bombing sorties against ISIS strongholds in Syria intensified after president Francois Hollande addressed both houses of Parliament in Versailles on Monday, and the US European Command has issued travel restrictions on its personnel.

Police sources told Reuters that authorities conducted at least 110 house searches in cities around France overnight.