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French President Francois Hollande vowed to destroy DAESH on Monday after its atrocities in Paris, promising tough new anti-terror measures at home and intensified bombing of Syria.
France and Belgium staged dozens of raids on suspected extremists as the manhunt continued for the eighth, including in a known radical hotspot in Brussels where some of the attackers are thought to have lived.
ISIS claimed responsibility for a series of attacks that targeted six locations in Paris with gunfire and explosions, killing 128 people in one of the nation’s deadliest massacres.
In an online statement distributed by supporters, the terror group said eight militants wearing explosive belts and armed with machine guns attacked precisely selected targets in the French capital.
Some 140 people were killed in a series of unprecedented attacks around Paris on Friday, police said, according to French news agencies. French President Francois Hollande closed the country’s borders and declared a state of emergency.
People died in shootings and explosions at multiple sites, some 100 of them in a popular concert hall where patrons were taken hostage and killed, police and medical officials said.
Russian-backed militants violate truce 21 times.
One Ukrainian soldier was killed in the past 24 hours, and five others were wounded, according to Ukraine’s presidential military spokesman Andriy Lysenko.
Kurdish rebels in Turkey declared an end to a unilateral cease-fire on Thursday, a day after President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, fresh from a sweeping election victory, pledged to eradicate the militants.
In halting a month-long bid to restore a truce, the Kurdistan Workers’ Party, or PKK, also urged an escalation in the fight for Kurdish autonomy, said a statement published by the Firat news agency.