France to intensify operations against IS group in Syria

President François Hollande has delivered an address before a joint session of parliament Monday declaring 'we are at war against jihadist terrorism' adding that France is to intensify anti-terror operations in Syria.

• US Secretary of State John Kerry arrived in Paris Monday evening ahead of planned talks with French President François Hollande at the Elysée palace. A State Department spokesman said Kerry will use his visit to reiterate a shared resolve to counter violent extremism in France and elsewhere.

• French President François Hollande delivered a historic speech before both houses of parliament at the Palace of Versailles’s Congress room, during which he announced a string of new security measures. He also said a bill to extend the country's state of emergency for three months will be presented to parliament on Wednesday.

• France observed a minute’s silence at noon in memory of the victims of the attacks, which killed 129 people and injured more than 350.

• Two people detained in Belgium on Saturday in the wake of the Paris attacks have been charged with terrorism, according to the federal prosecutor’s office, which added that a major police operation in the Brussels suburb of Molenbeek had yielded no new evidence or arrests.

• The Paris prosecutor’s office named two more suspected suicide bombers who blew themselves up at the Bataclan music hall and the national stadium during Friday’s attacks.
   
• France carried out massive air strikes Sunday night on Islamic State group targets in Raqqa, Syria.
   
• A search is under way for “the eighth man” in the Paris attacks. French police late Sunday issued a public appeal for information on 26-year-old Belgian Salah Abdeslam in connection with the attacks.

• Schools and offices open Monday as a nation in mourning goes back to work following the worst violence in France since World War II.
   
• French authorities have a number for people looking for missing loved ones: +33 (0) 800 40 60 05. There is also a special number for tourists: +33 (0)1 45 55 80 00. Information that can help police in the investigation into the attacks can be called in (from France) by dialling: 197.

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