French police raided homes of suspected Islamist militants across the country overnight in the aftermath of the Paris shootings, French Prime Minister Manuel Valls said on Monday as he warned of potential further attacks.
President Barack Obama said that ISIS was ‘contained’ just a day before the terrorist group claimed responsibility for a horrific attack in Paris that killed 129 people on Friday.
PARIS – In most parts of Paris on Saturday, including the airports and train stations, you could not see any increase in the number of security forces.
French media has identified one of the terrorists behind a string of deadly Paris attacks on Friday night as Ismail Omar Mostefai, a 29-year-old Frenchman from the southern Paris suburb of Courcouronnes.
Paris – French President Francois Hollande vowed to attack the Islamic State group without mercy as the jihadist group admitted responsibility Saturday for orchestrating the deadliest attacks inflicted on France since World War II.
Paris – Islamic State claimed responsibility on Saturday for a coordinated assault by gunmen and bombers that killed 129 people at locations across Paris that President Francois Hollande said amounted to an act of war against France.
Washington – A U.S. drone strike targeted a vehicle in Syria believed to be transporting the masked Islamic State militant known as “Jihadi John” on Thursday, according to American officials.
The United States’ near-certainty that an on-board bomb blew up a Russian airliner over Sinai recently is based in part on Israeli intelligence, CNN reported Sunday.
British investigators examining the deadly crash of a Russian passenger jet in Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula last weekend believe that the plane was brought down by a bomb placed in the cargo hold, according to reports by Sky News, the BBC and The Daily Telegraph.
As authorities worked to establish a motive for the 18-year-old college freshman who stabbed four people on a California campus Wednesday, more disturbing details emerged about the attacker.