French President Francois Hollande and British Prime Minister David Cameron arrive to attend a meeting at the Elysee Presidential Palace on November 23, 2015 in Paris, France.(Photo: Getty Images)
French President Francois Hollande and British Prime Minister David Cameron visited the Bataclan theater in Paris on Monday, where 89 of the 130 people killed in the terror attacks in Paris lost their lives.
The two leaders were meeting as Hollande presses for a stronger international coalition against the Islamic State, also known as ISIS or ISIL, which claimed responsibility for the attacks on Nov. 13. He will visit Washington and Moscow later this week.
Hollande said Monday that France will intensify its airstrikes against the militants in Syria and that the country is working with Cameron toward a political solution to end the civil war there that started in 2011.
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Britain is conducting airstrikes against ISIL in Iraq as part of a<span style="color: Red;">*</span>U.S.-led coalition targeting the extremists<span style="color: Red;">*</span>and Cameron said<span style="color: Red;">*</span>he will this week<span style="color: Red;">*</span>seek parliamentary approval to<span style="color: Red;">*</span>strike the militants in Syria, and offered use of<span style="color: Red;">*</span>a British air base in Cyprus to France to aid the fight. British lawmakers voted against<span style="color: Red;">*</span>launching<span style="color: Red;">*</span>airstrikes against Syrian President Bashar Assad's forces in 2013.
Cameron said Britain and France must work more closely with their European neighbors to share intelligence, and added:<span style="color: Red;">*</span>"In particular, we must do more to tackle the threat of returning foreign fighters.<span style="color: Red;">*</span>This requires a pan-European effort."
Abdelhamid Abaaoud, 27, the Belgian suspected ringleader in the attacks,<span style="color: Red;">*</span>traveled to Syria to join ISIL. He was killed in a raid on an apartment in the northern Paris neighborhood of Saint Denis last week.
Cameron will announce $270 billion in<span style="color: Red;">*</span>spending on defense equipment and support over the next 10 years later Monday, his office said.
Brussels was in lockdown for a third day Monday, after Belgian Prime Minister Charles Michel extended the highest alert level, citing an "imminent threat" to the capital. Commuter trains were halted and schools were closed as troops patrolled the streets.
Sixteen people were arrested in 19 anti-terror raids in the Belgian cities of Brussels and<span style="color: Red;">*</span>Charleroi<span style="color: Red;">*</span>overnight, but fugitive Belgian-born suspect Salah Abdeslam remains at large for his role in the Paris attacks.
French police on Sunday released an image of a man they say was<span style="color: Red;">*</span>the third suicide<span style="color: Red;">*</span>bomber at the Stade de France, or national stadium, and asked the public to help identify him.
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