France, Russia strike Islamic State in Syria, EU aid invoked

France, Russia strike Islamic State in Syria, EU aid invoked, France and Russia staged air strikes on Islamic State targets in arctic Syria on Tuesday, backbreaking the accumulation for attacks in Paris and adjoin a Russian aeroplane that calm dead 353 people.

Islamic State has claimed albatross for a accommodating aggression in Paris on Friday and the downing of a Russian allotment jet over Sinai on Oct. 31, adage they were in backfire for French and Russian air raids in Iraq and Syria.

Still addled from the Paris annihilation that dead 129, a lot of of them adolescent people, France formally requested European Union abetment in its activity adjoin the militants and British Prime Minister David Cameron belted afterpiece to extending aggressive activity adjoin Islamic State in Syria.

Police investigating the affliction atrociousness in France back World War Two apparent two safe houses in Paris breadth they accept the militants launched their assault. Underlining the addition ambit of the probe, badge in Germany said they arrested 5 suspects, including two women.

In Moscow, the Kremlin accustomed that a bomb had destroyed a Russian aeroplane endure month, killing 224 people. President Vladimir Putin vowed to coursing down those amenable and accent air strikes adjoin Islamists in Syria.

"Our air force's aggressive plan in Syria accept to not artlessly be continued," he said. "It accept to be agitated in such a way that the abyss accept that avengement is inevitable."

Western admiral said Russia launched a "significant number" of strikes in Syria on Tuesday hitting the Islamic State bastion of Raqqa. In a abstracted action, allegedly not coordinated, French warplanes targeted Raqqa for a additional day.

French President Francois Hollande has said he will see Putin and U.S. President Barack Obama in the advancing canicule to try to argue them to accompany a admirable affiliation adjoin Islamic State which controls swathes of Syria and Iraq.

Russia began air strikes in Syria at the end of September. It has consistently said its capital ambition is Islamic State, but a lot of of its bombs in the accomplished accept hit breadth captivated by added groups against to its ally, Syrian President Bashar al-Assad.In Brussels, Defence Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian invoked the EU's alternate abetment article for the aboriginal time back the 2009 Lisbon Treaty alien the possibility, adage he accustomed advice with French operations in Syria, Iraq and Africa.

"This is firstly a political act," Le Drian told a account appointment afterwards a affair of EU aegis chiefs.

The 28 EU affiliate states accustomed the French appeal but it was not anon bright what abetment would be forthcoming.

A manhunt was continuing in France and Belgium on Tuesday for one of the eight attackers in the Paris assault.

French badge staged 128 raids brief in the coursing for accomplices and Islamist active networks, Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve said. Badge begin a third Belgian-licensed car believed to accept been acclimated by the attackers and closed off the breadth about it in Paris' 18th district.
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