Germany is constitutionally hampered in participating in attacks outside its borders, but when Chancellor Angela Merkel visited Paris this week, Hollande reportedly called his close ally out.
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Dr Merkel backed military action against Islamic State and said she would “react very quickly” to French requests.
Germany had earlier announced it was deploying 650 troops to Mali, a move that Merkel said was created to provide relief to the 1,500 French soldiers already stationed there.
“There is no alternative, we must annihilate Islamic State”, Valls said in his speech, stressing that “November 13 has changed the world as well as Europe”.
The German decision follows a plea by French President Hollande for help from his European Union allies, after 130 people were killed in terrorist bombings in Paris claimed by ISIS.
Mr. Abaaoud also has been linked to at least two other unsuccessful recent terror attacks: one against a Paris-bound train that was thwarted by three Americans in August, and the other against a church in the city’s suburbs in April.
French president Francois Hollande has cited specific threats against French interests stemming from IS in Syria.
Hollande is anticipated to look to Merkel to make an effort to calm tensions between Turkey and Russia – two possible elements of the anti-IS coalition – which fell out over the downing of a Russian warplane in the Turkish-Syrian border.
Russian Federation is not a member of the U.S.-led global coalition against ISIS, although, on Thursday, Putin said that his country is ready to cooperate with the coalition.
“Let him turn himself in for his parents, for justice, for the families of victims, so that we can find out what happened”, Mohamed Abdeslam said.
French lawmakers have voted overwhelmingly to extend air strikes against Islamic State group targets in Syria, which have been stepped up following the Paris attacks.
Otte said Germany would go beyond its current arms shipments to and training of Iraqi Kurdish peshmerga forces combating Islamic State.
In a nod to critics in her conservative party, especially in Bavaria, where most of the migrants enter Germany, she said that migrants who do not need protection must be sent home.
Refugees, Syria’s civil war, Libya’s dissolution, rumblings from Russian Federation, terrorism in Paris and a red alert in Brussels put hard power back atop the European agenda, burying the notion of the economically bold but militarily shy Germany as Europe’s unchallenged leader.
Germany, Merkel said, wasn’t just saddened by the attacks, “it also feels challenged to do everything to prevent such events from happening again”.
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The lowering of the threat level came as a surprise, since the government had said it would likely keep the highest threat level until Monday.
