President Francois Hollande outlined that goal in a speech today to a joint session of his country’s parliament.
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“Even as we grieve with our French friends… we can’t lose sight that there has been progress”, Obama said at a Group of 20 summit, ruling out sending in ground troops.
“We don’t know where he is or have any information”. “We are in a war against jihadist terrorism which is threatening the whole world”, he told a packed, sombre chamber.
While Syrian President Bashar al-Assad could not be part of the solution to the crisis, “our enemy is Daesh (Islamic State)”, Hollande said, while insisting that France was fighting terrorism and not another civilization.
The overnight police raids coincided with France’s largest airstrike against the Islamic State in Syria to date.
A total of 23 people were arrested and dozens of weapons seized yesterday in raids on suspects across France.
Mr Kerry said: “We have to step up our efforts to hit them at the core where they’re planning these things and also obviously to do more on borders in terms the movement of people”. In addition, more than 100 people have been put under house arrest. “They were organized in Belgium and committed on our land”. “The barbarians who attack France would like to disfigure it. They will not make it change”, Hollande pledged.
Moroccan Ayoub El Khazzani who in August attacked passengers on a train travelling from Amsterdam to Paris before being overpowered by three Americans, was on the list, thanks to warnings from Spanish and Belgian authorities who had alerted the French.
France has issued an arrest warrant for Abdeslam, who was identified as the alleged driver of a rental vehicle that delivered attackers to a rock concert inside a nightclub in which 89 died. The vehicle was later found in Molenbeek on Saturday afternoon. Still, regime and opposition representatives have yet to sit down together and there is little agreement on the role of Assad in any transition, a key sticking point in the talks.
Salah Abdeslam, 26, French, born in Brussels, September 15, 1989.
Two terror suspects were killed during a gunfight with security forces.
Panic ensued Sunday night as police abruptly cleared mourners from the Place de la Republique square, where police said firecrackers sparked a false alarm.
All three gunmen in the January attacks on the Charlie Hebdo newspaper and a kosher supermarket in Paris were French.
Another brother, Mohamed, was detained by Belgian police but released without charge yesterday.
“My family and I are affected by what happened”.
Prosecutors say three people in Amimour’s family entourage have been in custody since early Monday.
A French official, who spoke to The Associated Press on condition of anonymity, said police had identified the suspected mastermind as Abdelhamid Abaaoud, a Belgian national believed to operating in Syria. French officials have determined that the bomber was among refugees who arrived on the Greek island of Leros among numerous Syrian refugees on October 3.
“There might be accomplices in France”, Manuel Valls told France Info Radio. He told reporters following his release that he doesn’t know where his brother is – or if he would’ “dare” to turn himself in.
Media named the two other French assailants as Bilal Hadfi and Ibrahim Abdeslam.
Frenchman of Algerian descent involved in Bataclan concert hall attack, lived for a time in Chartres area, southwest of Paris.
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8,000: The number of airstrikes the US and its allies have carried out against ISIS since launching the campaign in August 2014.
