United Kingdom newspaper The Guardian reported on Monday that Serbian police had arrested a man carrying a Syrian passport with the same details as the one found near the body of one of the Paris suicide bombers.
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French President Francois Hollande says France is “at war” against terrorism by the Islamic State group.
The French president called for an global coalition against the Islamic State group as France ramps up its assault against militants in Raqqa.
French officials are seeking three suspects directly involved in the terror attacks, including one shown at a cafe on a surveillance video.
Police also discovered two places in the French capital where the militants are believed to have stayed before the terror spree and a third auto, thought to have been used in the operation, was found abandoned.
The defense minister said 128 nationwide raids were conducted overnight, a day after a few 170 raids yielded a rocket launcher and several arrests.
The developments in the fast-moving investigation into the Paris attacks came as Russian security officials confirmed for the first time that a bomb brought down a Russian commercial airliner over Egypt last month, killing all 224 people on board.
Residents of the Paris suburb said they had been caught in a terrifying exchange of fire.
The French aircraft carrier Charles de Gaulle left the southern port of Toulon on Wednesday for the eastern Mediterranean to participate in intensified air strikes against Islamic State targets.
He is believed to have fled across the border to his native Belgium where Belgian police have released more pictures of the wanted man.
The search continues for Salah Abdeslam who was reportedly seen near the Belgian national football stadium in Brussels causing Belgium’s friendly against Spain to be cancelled tonight.
“We are weeks away conceivably from the possibility of a big transition for Syria”, John Kerry said.
While Abdeslam remains on the run, Belgian police have arrested the two others.
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Hamza Attou and Mohammed Amri are accused of picking up 26-year-old Salah Abdeslam from Paris and taking him back into Belgium early Saturday, Belgium prosecutor spokesperson Eric Van Sypt told NBC News. It invoked an article of the EU’s Lisbon Treaty that has never been used, which states nations must provide assistance when one of its members falls victim to “armed aggression”.
