November 2015 Paris attacks

==== Military ====
On 15 November, the [[French Air Force]] launched the biggest airstrike of [[Opération Chammal]], its bombing campaign against ISIL, sending 10 aircraft to drop 20 bombs on [[Raqqa]], the city where ISIL is based.<ref name="Airstrikes against ISIS, Police Raids">{{cite web|url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/nov/15/paris-attacks-car-found-with-kalashnikovs-as-gunmans-relatives-questioned|title=Paris attacks: French police launch raids as military strikes Isis in Syria|work=The Guardian|date=16 November 2015|access-date=16 November 2015 |last=Henley |first=Jon |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151115223117/http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/nov/15/paris-attacks-car-found-with-kalashnikovs-as-gunmans-relatives-questioned|archive-date=15 November 2015|url-status=live}}</ref> On 16 November, the French Air Force carried out more airstrikes on ISIL targets in Raqqa, including a command centre and a training camp.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://edition.cnn.com/2015/11/16/middleeast/france-raqqa-airstrikes-on-isis/|title=French jets bomb ISIS stronghold of Raqqa|publisher=CNN|date=16 November 2015|access-date=17 November 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151119221911/http://edition.cnn.com/2015/11/16/middleeast/france-raqqa-airstrikes-on-isis/|archive-date=19 November 2015|url-status=live}}</ref> On 18 November 2015, French aircraft carrier ''[[Charles de Gaulle (aircraft carrier)|Charles de Gaulle]]'' left its home port of [[Toulon]] heading towards the eastern [[Mediterranean]] to support bombing operations carried out by the [[Military intervention against ISIL|international coalition]].<ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.lemonde.fr/proche-orient/video/2015/11/18/le-porte-avions-charles-de-gaulle-a-appareille-en-direction-de-la-mediterranee-orientale_4812714_3218.html |title=Le porte-avions " Charles-de-Gaulle " a appareillé en direction de la Méditerranée orientale |trans-title=Aircraft Carrier "Charles de Gaulle" Heading Towards Eastern Mediterranean |newspaper=Le Monde.fr |date=18 November 2015 |access-date=23 November 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151118220542/http://www.lemonde.fr/proche-orient/video/2015/11/18/le-porte-avions-charles-de-gaulle-a-appareille-en-direction-de-la-mediterranee-orientale_4812714_3218.html |archive-date=18 November 2015 |url-status=live  }}</ref> This decision was taken before the November attacks but was accelerated by the events.

French authorities regularly gave detailed information to US authorities on the whereabouts of high-ranking IS members in the Syria-Iraq zone to be tracked and killed. This cooperation led to American air strikes being able to kill the planners of the 13 November 2015 attacks. United States authorities cooperated as they consider that if terrorist attacks hadn't taken place in France, they would have done so in the US instead.<ref name="france1"/>