French president Francois Hollande (R) and British Prime Minister David Cameron at the Elysee Palace on Monday.
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Cameron said November 23, he had offered France the use of a British airbase in Cyprus for air strikes, and assistance with refueling French jets.
Mr Cameron added the UK Parliament would have to agree to all-out air strikes by British forces, but he would not put the matter to a vote in the House of Commons until he is certain of victory to ensure the UK’s global reputation is not damaged.
Using the Arabic word for ISIS, President Hollande said: “We are convinced we must continue to hit Daesh in Syria“.
David Cameron visited the Bataclan concert hall in Paris this morning to pay tribute to victims of the terror attacks in the French Capital.
Cameron has said his bid to join the U.S.-led coalition in Syria was strengthened by Friday’s United Nation Security Council resolution to redouble action against Islamic State there.
Cameron will present his plans for Britain’s role in the war against the Islamic State on Thursday.
Mr Cameron is expected to discuss the possibility of Britain joining France in co-ordinated airstrikes on Islamic State targets in Syria.
Meanwhile Belgian police arrested 16 people in a major anti-terror operation, but on-the-run Paris attacker Salah Abdeslam remains at large, a federal prosecutor said.
The first fighter jets took off today from France’s Charles De Gaulle aircraft carrier, newly deployed to the eastern Mediterranean, for operations over IS territory in Iraq and Syria.
The British premier reiterated that the fight against the terrorists needs “a pan-European effort”.
No arms or explosives were found in 19 raids across Brussels – including in the Molenbeek area from where the Paris attack was planned – and two in Charleroi.
She added: “We need to see the plan that the world comes up with will work before we decide how to vote and how the Labour party will whip its MPs”.
Britain has found an additional £12 billion (US$18.2 billion) to increase the procurement and support budget to £178 billion over the next 10 years, the prime minister’s office said in a statement released earlier Monday.
Mr Putin said Russia’s own air strikes in Syria would last as long as was necessary to punish those guilty of blowing up the Russian airliner over Egypt last month.
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At the same time, US Secretary of State John Kerry was in Abu Dhabi hoping to forge a coalition of Syrian opposition groups for peace talks.
