airstrikes: French Prime Minister Manuel Valls said Monday "we are at war" against terrorism, according to CTV. French authorities say Sunday night airstrikes destroyed a jihadi training camp and a munitions dump in the city of Raqqa, where Iraqi intelligence officials say the attacks on Paris were planned. The raids came as the hunt continued for members of the sleeper cell that carried out last Friday gun and bomb attacks that killed 129 people and as France launched its heaviest airstrikes on the Islamic State group de-facto capital in Syria. Twelve aircraft including 10 fighter jets dropped a total of 20 bombs in the biggest air strikes since France extended its bombing campaign against the extremist group to Syria in September, a Defence Ministry statement said. The Paris prosecutor office said one suicide bomber who blew himself up in the Bataclan music hall Friday night was Samy Amimour, a 28-year-old Frenchman charged in a terrorism investigation in 2012. The jets launched from sites in Jordan and the Persian Gulf, in co-ordination with U.S. forces.
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