PM warns of more attacks

Security services have prevented seven attacks in the last six months, David Cameron said as he warned a Paris-style attack "could happen here".

The Prime Minister is meeting Vladimir Putin on the fringes of the G20 summit in Turkey as Western allies try to persuade the Russian president to co-operate in the international struggle against terror group Islamic State in the wake of attacks in Paris and Egypt.

The terror spree in France "was the sort of thing we warned about" in planning with the security services but such atrocities meant "you have to go right back to the drawing board" to work out what more steps needed to be taken, Mr Cameron said.

Asked if Britain was at war with IS, the premier said the UK stands in "total solidarity" with France and would do "everything we can" to defeat the jihadis.

The news comes after more than 150 police raids were carried out in France overnight, the country's Prime Minister has said.

Manuel Valls spoke on French radio RTL this morning, reaffirming President Francois Hollande's declaration that "we are at war" against terrorism following Friday's attacks in Paris.

Mr Valls also warned that there could be more attacks "in the coming days, in the coming weeks".

French forces struck back with a massive bombardment of the IS stronghold in Raqqa, Syria, last night.

A dozen aircraft, including 10 fighter jets, dropped 20 bombs, destroying a jihadi training camp and a munitions dump in Raqqa, where Iraqi intelligence officials claimed the attacks on Paris were planned.

Meanwhile, security has been beefed up in UK cities and ports as Brits were urged to remain vigilant following the Paris atrocities, which killed at least 129, although the threat level has not been changed from the second-highest “severe” rating.

David Cameron has announced a 15 per cent increase in the 12,700-strong staff of the security and intelligence agencies MI5, MI6 and GCHQ with the recruitment of an additional 1,900 personnel.

More details have emerged about the IS attack which was the worst terrorist outrage in Europe for more than a decade, leaving at least 129 dead and 350 wounded.

Three teams of terrorists carried out the co-ordinated attacks. As many as three of the seven suicide terrorists killed on Friday night were French. Two were Frenchmen living in Brussels. Bilal Hadfi has been named as one of the assailants and is said to have fought with IS in Syria. The 20-year-old, was identified by police as one of the three suicide bombers at the Stade de France. Three Kalashnikov assault rifles were discovered inside the Seat car used in the attacks which was found in the suburb of Montreuil, four miles east of Paris

One of the attackers was identified as 29-year-old Frenchman Ismael Mostefai, who had been flagged for links to Islamic radicalism Seven people have been arrested in Belgium and six in France in connection with the killings, including Mostefai’s father and brother. More arrests were reported by French media overnight in Grenoble.

Police across Europe are searching for Salah Abdeslam (26), who rented a car used to carry gunmen to the Bataclan music venue which became the scene of a massacre.

The French authorities missed an opportunity to detain Abdeslam just hours after the carnage in Paris when he was questioned and released on Saturday morning. Officers had Abdeslam in their grasp when they stopped the car carrying him and two other men near the Belgian border.

Abdeslam is one of three brothers suspected of involvement in the Paris attacks. Another has been named as Brahim. A third brother was arrested in Belgium.