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Positions in and around raqqa which is really isis's de facto capital in syria. as mentioned, russian bombe+5vjñ long-range bombers, we have seen the video released by the russian military have also been pounding raqqa, targeting positions in raqqa as well. pay back for the attack on that russian airline that went down over the sinai desert in egypt october 31st, the kremlin as mentioned confirming that it was a bomb planted on board that took that plane down killing all 224 people, mostly russian citizens and in a significant show of support and solidarity, we talked about this, russian pres...

Ask your doctor about lyrica. 4:00 here on the east coast and there is a huge developing story in response to the terror attacks. the french have started to launch air strikes. according to the french defense ministry 20 bombs dropped by ten planes on raqqa. that is the capital of the caliphate which has increasingly been the focus of veterans of terror wars in france and the united states have increasingly looked at this central town of raqqa. now we just got a translation from zaid jabber in london who works at our bureau there. he has been following the islamic state outlets and he quotes...

So again, we are following the breaking news essentially out of raqqa, syria, which is the capital of the caliphate formed by isis. confirmation from nbc news of what we've heard from the french defense ministry that they sent ten jet, ten fighter jets. they've been part of the coalition, but obviously these coming just two days after those deadly attacks in paris dropping a 20-targeted bombs and hitting their targets. they have said the raid that was targeting a command center, a recruitment center for jihadists, a munitions dee poe and a training camp for fighters although islamic state tele...

>> let's go to turkey now where ron allen has been traveling with president obama, and i know this just happened and it's late there. i'm not sure what time it is in turkey and any reaction from the white house yet? any response? >> reporter: not yet, but i don't think anybody would be surprised by these reports that these attacks on raqqa. we've known for some time that the coalition of the united states has been targeting that self-proclaimed capital of the islamic state as a place. remember, was there an attack earlier in the week or last week on the town of sinjar which is a key city along...

52 past the hour. a couple of big developments in this hour. in the last few minutes we've been talking about the major development of the french bombing in syria in raqqa going after isis targets and we'll talk about that in a moment and there's another bit of breaking news from the associated press. french officials telling the a.p. police questioned, but then released the fugitive suspect just hours after the paris attacks. his name is salah abdeslam. he was pulled over in a car near the belgian border just hours after he was identified as the renter of the car that was abandoned. this is t...