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Place de la Republique, Paris. The French government is looking for strategies to fight terrorists inside and outside the country. (Photo: Eric Maurice)

France seeks answers to security challenge

French authorities launched police raids against suspected Islamic radicals in several French cities on Monday morning (16 November), a few hours after France also struck a series of Islamic State (IS) sites in Raqqa, Syria on Sunday evening.

Both moves illustrate the security challenges France is trying to tackle in the wake of the terror attacks that killed 129 people and left 352 injured in Paris on Friday.

Security forces carried out the raids in Toulouse, Grenoble, in the Lil...

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