Foreign Minister Fabius said France wants to participate in the airstrikes against the Islamic State in Syria. Yesterday France had expressed willingness to “participate, if necessary, in military air action” in Iraq. Mourad Fares a.k.a. Abu Hassan al Faransi, a prominent jihadist recruiter linked to first the Islamic State and then the Al Nusrah Front, was arrested in France after being turned over by Turkey, where he was arrested on Aug. 16. He reportedly had been working from two bases along the Turkish-Syrian border.
