Paris attacks suspect tells trial he's "an Islamic State soldier"

Paris: A French-Moroccan believed to be the only surviving member of a group that killed 130 people in a rampage across Paris described himself on Wednesday as "an Islamic State soldier" at the start of the trial into the 2015 attacks.

Salah Abdeslam appeared in court dressed in black and with a black face mask, one of 20 men accused of involvement in attacks by gunmen in suicide vests on six restaurants and bars, the Bataclan concert hall and a sports stadium on Nov. 13, 2015. Responsibility for the attacks, in which hundreds were also injured, was claimed by Islamic State, which had urged its followers to attack France over its involvement in the fight against the radical group in Iraq and Syria.