An Islamic State operative suspected of helping organize the attacks on Paris had been monitored in Syria by Western allies seeking to kill him in an airstrike, but they couldn’t locate him in the weeks before the plot was carried out. The operative, a Belgian citizen named Abdelhamid Abaaoud, is one of two people who have emerged at the center of a probe into the attacks.
World leaders pledged to seize on the Paris attacks to deepen their involvement in what looked Monday to be turning into more of a global campaign against the growing threat of Islamic State.
France launched airstrikes against Islamic State in Syria, responding to terror attacks on its capital, as investigators pieced together a chilling picture of Europe’s security: a continent at a loss to foil, let alone detect, such a coordinated plot.
The U.S. has stepped up its attacks on Islamic State’s industrial base, striking on Monday more than 100 trucks used to carry oil that helps the militant group earn tens of millions of dollars each month.
Turkish officials revealed they had identified one of the Paris assailants as a terrorism suspect and notified French authorities twice to no avail, highlighting intelligence lapses that plague cooperation among Western allies amid mounting security risks from extremist militants.
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan pressed efforts to persuade world powers to jointly tackle the Syrian conflict and Islamic State, after attacks on Paris highlighted the risk of terrorists posing as refugees to enter Europe.
The liberation Friday of Sinjar, a rare retreat for Islamic State, has provided a close-up look at how Islamic State disrupted lives and tore apart the social fabric of a place.
The Paris attacks suggest that the U.S. and its allies overestimated successes against Islamic State while underestimating the group’s ability to strike far from its Middle East stronghold.
Even as governments and religious figures across the Middle East condemned the Islamic State-claimed attacks in Paris,regional security forces areunlikely to bolster operations against the group as most regional governments lack the capacity to escalate their fight against the extremists.
The Paris attacks, claimed by Islamic State, strengthened France’s resolve to fight Islamist radicals.
The U.S. transferred five Yemeni detainees from the prison facility at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba to the United Arab Emirates, the Pentagon announced late Sunday.
Friday’s deadly attacks in Paris, if Islamic State’s claim of responsibility proves correct, represent a major departure for the militant group that until now concentrated on creating a state in Syria and Iraq rather than directly targeting the West.
A day after the Paris terror attacks, blamed on Islamic State, Syria’s president and his opponents weighed what deeper Western involvement might mean for a churning, multisided conflict.
The Kurdish Regional Government on Saturday said it thwarted an Islamic State terror attack in Erbil this month, as Iraqi officials said Friday’s Islamic State-claimed attacks proved that inaction in Iraq had implications beyond the Middle East.
Global stocks gained, helped by a recent rise in commodity prices.
Russia said it had found evidence that the passenger jet that crashed in Egypt last month was downed by a bomb, the first time those investigating the crash have cited proof of a terrorist attack.
The French air force carried out raids against the Islamic State stronghold of Raqqa in northern Syria for the second consecutive day early Tuesday, in retaliation for Friday’s Paris attacks that left 129 dead. Police continued their search for suspected Islamist militants in France.
France’s air force early Tuesday said it struck against Islamic state in the area of Raqqa, Syria, for the second night in a row, following the Friday attacks in Paris that killed at least 129 people. Earlier, Belgian police scoured a Brussels neighborhood for a suspect believed to have been key to the attacks.
Defense Secretary Ash Carter Monday called on European nations to step up their involvement in the fight against Islamic State in the wake of the Paris terrorist attacks.
Her debate answers did not hint of Kissinger, or even John Kerry.