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ISIS is very weak, just because they can conduct some attacks(if we presume it really was them) doesn't make them strong. So an overwhelming war that will harm civilian on parts of Syria/Iraq will cause Sunni muslims to believe it is war on them and today is different than pre-Iraq war. It will be dangerous journey for the world to take.

Pardon me but I don't think ISIS is weak. They may be poor in resources and in manpower but definitely ISIS is a group to reckon with simply because they are fighting a guerrilla warfare tactics. And if ISIS is indeed weak, it is not logical for them to have invaded Iraq and Syria and still occupying the claimed territory until now. But this attack in Paris is definitely scary for all people of the world.
 

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30 airstrikes in #Raqqa #Syria No details for now.
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#Syria #French Defence Ministry says 10 fighter jets dropped 20 bombs on the #ISIS held city of #Raqqa
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Aftermath footage of 30 airstrikes conducted by #France targeting the outskirts of #IS controlled #Raqqa #Syria

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Of course, indiscriminately bomb civilians that will help. I am afraid I will take the side of the Muslims in this one. France was one which declared war on Syrian Sunni's and bombed for no reason besides that Christians think it's okay to kill as many Muslims as they want. Wish all the injured a speed recovery.

Masha'Allah.
I hope many of them died and airstrikes will be intensified. BTW,we struck command post,ammo storage,training centers,all targets were designated during reconnaissance missions,so please don't act as if we nuked Raqqah. I would be happy to see that BTW. Civilians ? What civilians ? Any civilian in Jihadi areas must fight them or die alongside them.
 

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Masha'Allah.
I hope many of them died and airstrikes will be intensified. BTW,we struck command post,ammo storage,training centers,all targets were designated during reconnaissance missions,so please don't act as if we nuked Raqqah. I would be happy to see that BTW. Civilians ? What civilians ? Any civilian in Jihadi areas must fight them or die alongside them.

You put yourself in a war then now behave as if it's obligation to kill people in Syria. That's abuse and aggression. So when they hit back again don't cry about it.
 

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You put yourself in a war then now behave as if it's obligation to kill people in Syria. That's abuse and aggression. So when they hit back again don't cry about it.

What is wrong with you seriously ? One day,there's no God,Islam is stupid and whatsoever else,one day you are "Jihadi" wanting to kill/destroy the crusaders. As if i forgot what you were saying some years ago.
 

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What is wrong with you seriously ? One day,there's no God,Islam is stupid and whatsoever else,one day you are "Jihadi" wanting to kill/destroy the crusaders. As if i forgot what you were saying some years ago.

Nothing is wrong with me, you can't enter a war and expect no consequences. Try what you do in the Middle East with more powerful nations that guard their interests like China, you will then get the point. But people think it's okay to have such policy in the Middle East since Arabs are weak people. These terror attacks are ISIS's way of responding. No doubt they were cruel attacks in same way daily bombing of Syrians is too.

The reality is it's about time Sunni Arabs are given consideration. Like the Syrian and Palestinian people and even Iraqi people. Their plights are not only being ignored but make exacerbated by foreigners and locals. The stubbornness of the US aiding Israel's occupation makes no sense and will fuel extremism. These extremist attacks will continue until Westerners and local Arab regimes wake up and realize they've been wronging the Arab Sunni people and come to the realization that it's time to grant them their rights. Do you agree or disagree? They have tried every other option to get the point across non-violently but nothing came out of it.
 

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What was the purpose of doing that ?
Pretty creepy.

Im just pissed at the world community. People are dying on daily basis in Syria, Iraq Palestine and no one is giving a damn shit. ISIS launched several attacks inside Saudi Arabia in mosques and elsewhere that claimed hundred of innocent and we see no solidarity whatsoever from the rest of the world. No condemnation. Did you see how the world reacted to France? Aren't those people dying here and there human beings as well? Or their blood is blue. Disgusting indeed.

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France: Paris attacks ‘mastermind’ dead
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A member of French judicial police and a French plainclothes policeman walk outside a building in Saint-Denis, near Paris. (Reuters)


Staff writer, Al Arabiya News Thursday, 19 November 2015

French Prime Minister Manuel Valls on Thursday hailed the death of Abdelhamid Abaaoud at the hands of security forces in a massive police raid in Paris.

“We know that Abaaoud, the mastermind of these attacks -- or one of the masterminds because we must be careful and we know the threats -- is among the dead,” Valls said.

The body of the suspected mastermind of the Paris attacks has been identified among those killed in a police raid, the prosecutor's office said Thursday. “Abdelhamid Abaaoud has just been formally identified... as having beenkilled during the raid” in a northern Paris suburb on Wednesday, the prosecutor said in a statement.

Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve said Thursday said Abaaoud was implicated in four of six foiled attacks in France this year.

“Six attacks were avoided or foiled by the French services since spring 2015. Abaaoud was implicated in four of them,” Cazeneuve told reporters, shortly after his death was confirmed by the prosecutors’ office.

Meanwhile, Moroccan intelligence helped put French investigators on the trail of the Belgian jihadist suspected of orchestrating last week’s deadly attacks in Paris, police sources said Thursday.

A Moroccan tip-off, along with other information, helped police track Abaaoud to an apartment block.



Undated file photograph of a man described as Abdelhamid Abaaoud. (Reuters)

‘Mastermind’ tried to recruit Spanish women
Abaaoud tried to recruit women living in Spain for ISIS, Interior Minister Jorge Fernandez Diaz said Thursday.

“This person, Abdelhamid Abaaoud, tried to recruit Spaniards, especially women, though social networks to join and fight with Daesh," he said, using an Arabic acronym for ISIS “This was not to carry out attacks in Spain. Regarding this we have no knowledge,” he added.

The minister said ISIS has focused on recruiting women to “repopulate the caliphate” which it proclaimed in 2014 in the huge swathes of Syria and Iraq under its control.

Raids in Saint-Denis
Police launched the operation in Saint-Denis after receiving information from tapped phone calls, surveillance and tipoffs suggesting that 27-year-old Abaaoud was holed up in an apartment in Paris’ Saint-Denis neighborhood.

Terrified residents awoke to gunfire and explosions as a SWAT team swooped in and “neutralized” what Paris Prosecutor Francois Molins called a “new team of terrorists” that appeared ready for a new attack.

Soufiane Belaribi, a young man of Algerian origin who lives in the suburb, said he had heard explosions while on his way to work in the morning.

“I never imagined they would be hiding here. I didn’t see any suspicious movement in this neighborhood. I have been living here for 12 years,” Belaribi told Al Arabiya News.

French authorities declared a state of emergency after the attacks last Friday, and security forces have conducted 414 raids, making 60 arrests and seizing 75 weapons, including 11 military-style firearms, the Interior Ministry said.

Parliament on Thursday also extended the emergency state to three months.

Warning over chemical, biological attack
On Thursday, Prime Minister Manuel Valls warned of the danger of an attack in France using “chemical or biological weapons,” in a speech to lawmakers while they were debating the extension of the state of emergency.

“We must not rule anything out,” Valls said. “There is also the risk from chemical or biological weapons,” he added.

As the investigation spreads across Europe into the attacks claimed by ISIS, Valls also called on the European Union (EU) to urgently adopt measures to share airline passenger information.

“More than ever, it’s time for Europe to adopt the text... to guarantee the traceability of movements, including within the union. It’s a condition of our collective security,” he said.

Meanwhile, police in France are going to be allowed to carry weapons when they are off duty, according to a directive from police commanders issued Thursday.

They will be allowed to use their guns in the event of a terror attack providing they wear a police armband to avoid “any confusion,” according to the note seen by AFP says.

Belgium vows extremism crackdown
Belgium’s prime minister urged for changes in the country’s constitution including the introduction of tracking bracelets of those deemed as security threat after the country’s police staged six raids Thursday in the Brussels area linked to a suicide bomber who blew himself up outside the French national stadium last week during the Paris attacks.


Belgian Prime Minister Charles Michel walks after addressing Belgium’s parliament announcing security measures after the recent deadly Paris attacks, in Brussels. (Reuters)



Belgium also announced its participation in the U.S.-led airstrikes against Islamist militants after the raids, Al Arabiya News Correspondent reported.

Addressing the federal parliament as security forces were conducting raids around the capital Brussels, Charles Michel pledged to use changes to the constitution to extend preventive detention times for suspects from 24 hours to 72 hours.

He also affirmed that Belgium would move forward alone on a system of airline passenger information sharing that European Union nations have been incapable of agreeing in four years.

“The risk before us is the collapse of the entire European project if we don’t take our responsibilities,” he told the lawmakers.

“All democratic forces have to work together to strengthen our security,” he said.

Michel said 400 million euros ($427 million) would be earmarked to boost the security forces, and said special attention would be paid to eradicating messages of hate inspiring young people to fight in places like Syria and Iraq, or back at home later in Europe.

“For jihadis who return, their place is in prison,” said Michel.

He dismissed criticism of Belgian police, saying they had provided vital information that led to a major police raid in the northern Paris suburb of Saint Denis on Wednesday.

Some 500 people are on Belgium’s list of “radicalized” people, and about 30 people are known to have traveled to Syria as potential foreign fighters in the Molenbeek neighborhood, a major source of extremists.

Belgium to introduce e-bracelets
Michel said he would introduce a system for people considered a threat that would “impose the wearing of an electronic bracelet.”

The prosecutor’s office told AFP the raids targeted places “linked to Bilal Hadfi,” the 20-year-old who died when he set off his explosives on Friday, in Brussels as well as the suburbs of Uccle, Jette and Molenbeek, which is dubbed a haven for extremists.

The prosecutor added that the raids targeted places involving Hadfi’s family, friends and other people directly linked to him.

Hadfi was one of three assailants who blew themselves up outside the French national stadium, killing one person, as France was playing Germany in a football friendly attended by 80,000 fans, including French President Francois Hollande.

Investigators say Hadfi was a French national who was living in Belgium and had spent time in Syria.

“It’s a case which has already existed in 2015, following Mr. Hadfi’s departure for Syria,” a source in the prosecutor’s office said.

Police also detained one person in a separate raid in Laeken, a suburb northwest of Brussels, in connection with the Paris attacks but not with Hadfi, the source added.

The person's role in the attacks “remains to be seen,” the source said.


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Al Arabiya News’ Asma Ajroudi contributed to this report from Saint-Denis, Paris.

Last Update: Friday, 20 November 2015 KSA 23:41 - GMT 20:41
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French U.N. draft calls for ‘all necessary measures’ to fight ISIS
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The National Assembly is lit with the blue, white and red colors of the French flag in Paris. (Reuters)

AFP Thursday, 19 November 2015

France urged the U.N. Security Council on Thursday to authorize countries to “take all necessary measures” to fight ISIS after the jihadists claimed responsibility for the Paris attacks.

A draft resolution presented to the 15-member council called on U.N. member states to “redouble and coordinate their efforts to prevent and suppress terrorist acts committed specifically by ISIL” and groups linked to Al-Qaeda.

ISIL is another acronym to ISIS.

“The exceptional and unprecedented threat posed by this group to the entire international community requires a strong, united and unambiguous response from the Security Council,” French Ambassador Francois Delattre said.

“This is the goal of our draft resolution, which calls on all member states to take all necessary measures to fight Daesh (ISIS).”

Delattre said he was seeking rapid approval of the draft resolution that was “put in blue” -- a U.N. term designating that a final version is ready for a vote at the Security Council.

France’s bid for U.N. backing came after Russia submitted a revised text of a separate draft resolution that calls for fighting the ISIS group with Syria’s consent.

That draft has been rejected by the United States, Britain and France, which are refusing to cooperate with President Bashar al-Assad’s regime, whom they accuse of fomenting extremism by resorting to brutality.

The French draft resolution does not provide any legal basis for military action and does not invoke chapter seven of the U.N. charter that authorizes the use of force.

French diplomats maintain though that it will provide important international political support to the anti-ISIS campaign that has been ramped up since the attacks in Paris on Friday that left 129 dead.

The French draft text describes ISIS as a “global and unprecedented threat to international peace and security” and said sanctions would soon be imposed against ISIS leaders and supporters.

The text “unequivocally condemns in the strongest terms the horrifying terrorist attacks” by ISIS in Paris and Beirut, and also mentions violence in Tunisia, Turkey and Egypt this year.

French President Francois Hollande is due to meet Russian President Vladimir Putin in Moscow next week, two days after talks in Washington with President Barack Obama aimed at stepping up the campaign against the extremists.

Separately, Italian police have arrested two Syrians trying to travel to Malta on false passports who ISIS had related images on their phones, local media reported Thursday.

The two men, aged 19 and 30, were apprehended at Bergamo airport near Milan late Wednesday after presenting Austrian and Norwegian passports but answering only to Arabic, the Eco di Bergamo daily said.

Italian security services have been on high alert following coordinated gun and suicide attacks in Paris last Friday claimed by ISIS, and warnings from the FBI over possible jihadist attacks at Italy’s historical sites.

Last Update: Friday, 20 November 2015 KSA 23:02 - GMT 20:02
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Paris Mosque urges Muslims to join ‘anti-terror’ protest Friday
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Several hundred people, Muslims and non-Muslims, gather to pray at the Grande Mosque in Lyon, France, November 15, 2015, for the victims of the series of shootings in Paris on Friday. (Reuters)

AFP, Paris Wednesday, 18 November 2015

The Great Mosque of Paris urged French Muslims on Tuesday to gather at the country’s most important mosque Friday to say “No to terror” and “We are all Paris!”.

A statement called on “all Muslim citizens and their friends” to gather at 2:00 pm (1300 GMT) to say “no to terror” and voice “their deep attachment to Paris, its diversity and the values of the Republic.”

The gathering of French Muslims after Friday prayers was “the best response to those seeking to instill the venom of discord and suspicion within the national community,” the statement added.

The rector of the Great Mosque earlier this week called on all French imams to lead the faithful in Friday prayers for the victims of the country’s worst ever terror attacks.

Rector Dalil Boubakeur voiced “horror” at the “unspeakable acts” which had targeted “absolutely innocent” Parisians.

“We, Muslims of France, can only insist on the need for national unity in opposing this misfortune which has afflicted us and which attacks indiscriminately,” he said.

“We are all victims of this barbarity,” he said.

The suicide bombers behind Friday’s attacks on the national stadium, a packed music venue and bars and restaurants were “people who call themselves Muslims but who should, by rights, be called barbarians.”

The body representing Muslims in France said it would ask all 2,500 mosques in the country to condemn “all forms of violence or terrorism” in prayers this Friday, following the Paris attacks.

The message will condemn such acts “unambiguously”, the French Muslim Council (CFCM) said.

Last Update: Wednesday, 18 November 2015 KSA 18:53 - GMT 15:53
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Turkey arrests ‘scout’ for Paris attacks, local media says

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Turkey’s state-run news agency said Saturday that authorities have detained three suspected Islamic State militants, including a 26-year-old Belgian of Moroccan descent believed to have scouted out the locations for the November 13 attacks in Paris that killed 130 people.

The Anadolu Agency said early Saturday that the two Syrians and the Belgian national — identified as Ahmet D. — were detained near the Turkish coastal city of Antalya. It says they were detained on suspicion of “aiding and abetting” the Islamic State group.

The private Dogan news agency identified the Belgian as Ahmet Dahmani, said he is suspected of having explored areas in Paris that were attacked last week.

Dogan said Dahmani was detained in a police raid at his hotel. Officials could not immediately be reached for confirmation.

Belgium’s national Crisis Center has raised its terrorism alert to its highest level in the Brussels region. The center announced on its website it had elevated the threat to Level 4, which indicates a “serious and immediate threat.”

Turkey arrests 'scout' for Paris attacks, local media says | The Times of Israel
 
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