The raids centered on associates of Hadfi who is believed to have been one of three attackers that blew themselves up at the Stade de France as France were playing Germany in a football friendly attended by 80,000 fans, including French President Francois Hollande.
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The chairman of the Senate intelligence committee said Tuesday that it was likely that militants plotting the attacks in Syria, Belgium and France used encryption to hide their communications from authorities. Sen.
As France heightens its assault on militants in Syria, President Hollande has called on U.S. President Obama and Russian President Putin to come together in an global coalition to address the conflict in Syria and defeat the Islamic State group.
The manhunt for suspects linked to the Paris massacre led to new arrests in multiple countries Tuesday, as lawyers for two men admitted their clients drove to France to pick up a suspected attacker who remains on the loose.
Shooting began at about 4.30 a.m. (0330 GMT) and police special forces of the RAID unit were still involved in exchanges of fire three hours later, witnesses said.
France has been bombing Islamic State positions in Iraq and Syria for months as part of a US-led operation.
Severe damage to the building and the state of the bodies found inside made it impossible to know exactly how many people had been killed and who they were, the prosecutor said. More than 100 people have been placed under house arrest, 23 arrested and 31 weapons seized, Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve said. The two men, 27-year-old Mohammed Amri and 21-year-old Hamza Attouh, have been arrested in Belgium on terrorism charges. In January, terrorists killed 17 people in a series of attacks that included the storming of the offices of the satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo. Kerry is in Paris to pay tribute to victims of the 13 November Paris attacks.
Despite being on Belgium’s radar, and in some cases on an actual list of Belgian terrorists to watch, a group of ISIS members were able to plot and execute their deadly attack on Paris practically undetected.
This is the latest major French airstrike against the IS stronghold, after dropping 20 bombs the city on Monday.
At one intersection, police who arrived to direct traffic Monday were met by anxious pedestrians asking, “Is anything happening?”
Both brothers were released, the federal prosecutor said, after they denied wanting to go to Syria.
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One social media user said: “This is what strength looks like”.
