Tue Nov 17, 2015 AT 10:23 AM EST
France has mobilized 115,000 security personnel and has conducted 128 additional raids on suspected militants, the BBC reports. Meanwhile, France and Russia staged airstrikes on Islamic State targets in northern Syria on Tuesday, as France formally requested European Union assistance, invoking for the first time the EU’s mutual assistance clause of the 2009 Lisbon Treaty, according to Reuters.