Reports are coming in that on Monday France will
appeal Article 5 of the NATO Mutual Defense Treaty. NATO’s collective defense section
forces all NATO members – including America – to fight alongside France against
ISIS.
In response to Friday’s series of coordinated
attacks across Paris, French President Francois Hollande declared on Saturday
that France would respond with a “pitiless” war against the group responsible.
Speaking from the Bataclan, the site of one of the attacks, he stated, “We are
going to lead a war which will be pitiless.”
On Sunday, 10 French
fighter jets pummeled the ISIS-held city of Raqqa with at least 20 bombs,
according to the French defence ministry. Britain’s Mirror reported the
jets hit a command and control center, jihadi recruitment center, munitions
depot and a training camp.
ISIS is claiming
responsibility for the Paris attacks. In an online statement in Arabic and
French which authorities say appears to be genuine, the attacks are called
a “miracle” carried out by “eight brothers wearing explosive vests and assault
rifles.” The statement called Paris the “capital of abomination and
perversion.”
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