Paris

Thousands of Syrians died, Aleppo was destroyed and Damascus perished. The Syrian population had to leave their homes; they became misplaced. The corpses of children were washed up on shores. No voice saying "Pray for Syria" was echoed on a global scale.    

France is strong and will overcome the effects of the horrific attack perpetrated by a group of less than human criminals acting in the name of Islam. It is not for nothing that the motto of Paris for over 600 years has been "Fluctuat nec mergitur," which is Latin for "shaken but not sunk." 

France's reaction to what its president called "an act of war," the series of attacks which claimed the lives of 129 people on Nov. 13, was to hit the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) in Raqqa, Syria. 

French President Francois Hollande called on Monday for a united front with the United States and Russia to crack down on the Islamic State group.

United States warplanes have destroyed more than 100 tanker trucks in eastern Syria believed to be smuggling oil for the Islamic State group, the Pentagon said on Monday.

The oil smuggling business is a source of an estimated daily revenue of USD 1.0 M for the jihadist organization, which uses the proceeds from illegal oil sales to fund its military operations and recruit fighters.

Sending U.S. troops to Iraq and Syria to fight the Islamic State group on the ground "would be a mistake," United States President Barack Obama said on Monday.

Obama said there would be no change to the current military strategy of the U.S-led coalition fighting the jihadist militants in Iraq and Syria despite Friday's multiple terror attacks in Paris that killed 129 people.

Police and municipal authorities are stepping up security measures in Sofia in the wake of Friday's Paris terror attacks, bTV reported on Monday.

Interior Minister Rumyana Bachvarova and Sofia Mayor Yordanka Fandakova have discussed an increase of police presence at public places in which large numbers of people gather.

France is to 'intensify Syria operations' after the Paris attacks, said French President François Hollande, while police raided homes of suspected Islamist militants across France overnight arresting 23 people, as French fighter aircrafts have bombed the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) targets in Syria's Raqqa city late Nov. 15. 

Outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) militants, who had planned a bomb attack targeting a ceremony on Nov. 10 in ?zmir, hid the explosives inside a truck carrying the belongings of a police officer who was moving his house from Diyarbak?r in the southeast to the Aegean city, according to a police report. 

Bulgaria's Prime Minister Boyko Borisov has declined to comment on President Rosen Plevneliev's assertion that Russia planned to wage a 'hybrid warfare' campaign focused on the Balkans in a bid to destabilize Europe.