5h ago 14:23

Abdelhamid Abaaoud, who is believed to have masterminded the Paris attacks, was sentenced to 20 years in prison earlier this year after being tried in absentia for recruiting for Islamic State in Syria.

He was among 32 people charged with running one of Belgium’s largest jihadi recruitment networks, although many of the defendants – including Abaaoud – were tried in absentia and remain at large.

The Belgian news agency Belga reported in July that he was handed a 20-year prison term – the maximum sentence in the case – alongside the second main defendant, Khalid Zerkani, who was sentenced to 12 years for encouraging people to go to Syria.

Abaaoud was also accused of kidnapping, after his younger brother Younes travelled to Syria in January 2014 aged 13 and was described by the media as “the youngest jihadi in the world”.

Their father, Omar, having heard no news from his two sons, filed a police complaint against the older son.

20m ago 02:12
US strikes hit 116 oil-hauling trucks in Syria

In an attack which was the first of its kind since US-led forces began airstrikes in Syria, US warplanes have destroyed 116 oil-hauling trucks in eastern Syria that were a key part of a smuggling operation that brings the group an estimated $1.4 million a day, the AP reports.

The trucks were clustered near Abu Kamal, a town close to the Iraqi border. US officials previously had said they avoided attacking fuel trucks out of concern for civilian casualties.

Navy Capt. Jeff Davis, a Pentagon spokesman, said that in an effort to warn the truck drivers to leave the area in advance of Sunday’s attacks, leaflets were dropped and coalition planes conducted low-level “show of force” flights over the site.

Davis said the coalition had determined that more needed to be done to inhibit the Islamic State’s generation of oil revenues in Syria and Iraq.

The Treasury Department said last year that the group earned nearly $1 million a day from illicit oil sales; the Pentagon believes that sum has risen to nearly $1.4 million a day. Since the earliest days of the U.S.-led bombing campaign, some parts of the Islamic State’s oil infrastructure have been attacked, but the effort is now intensifying.

“This part of it was designed to attack the distribution component of Isil’s oil smuggling operation,” Davis said, referring to attacking the fuel trucks. “Isil is stealing oil from the people of Iraq and Syria to fund its campaign of terror.”

14s ago 02:35
Serbian police arrest man with Syrian passport matching attacker's

This report from the Guardian’s Milan Dinic in London and Amanda Holpuch in New York:

Serbian police have arrested a man carrying a Syrian passport with the same details as one found near the body of one of the Paris suicide bombers, police sources have told the Guardian.

The passport bears the same name and details – but a different photograph – as the document found near one of the men who attacked the Stade de France.

Serbian officials said that they believe both passports are fake, but added that they are working with French investigators to establish the origin of the documents.

And Molly you listed 6 dead unless I'm worse at math than I think.

5.39am 05:39
France launches new raids on Raqqa - report

AFP are reporting France has launched a new round of air raids against Isis in Raqqa - a stronghold of the group.

It follows Sunday’s raids in which a dozen Isis targets - including a command centre, recruitment centre for jihadists, a munitions depot, and a training camp for fighters - were bombed by fighter jets launched from the United Arab Emirates and Jordan.

French president François Hollande on Monday vowed to intensify airstrikes against Isis.

2m ago 05:59

We have more details of the French military airstrikes against Isis.

The French defence ministry has confirmed the raid, which occurred shortly after midnight GMT, according to AFP.

A total of 16 bombs were dropped from 10 Rafale and Mirage 2000 fighters, destroying a command centre and a training centre in Raqqa.

“Conducted in coordination with US forces, the raid was aimed at sites identified during reconnaissance missions previously carried out by France,” a statement from the ministry said.

...what happened to the one who in the first moments we were hearing about this said "I am ISIS" ?

They all look the same to me Carm