The wave of bloody attacks that killed and injured hundreds on Friday draws worldwide condemnations and international calls to confront the Takfiri threat posed by ISIL.

The wave of bloody attacks that killed and injured hundreds on Friday draws worldwide condemnations and international calls to confront the Takfiri threat posed by ISIL group (so-called Islamic State in Iraq and Levant) and other extremist groups.

US president Barack Obama said the attack is on all humanity
"It's an attack not just on the people of France. But this is an attack on all of humanity and the universal values we share.”

"Those go far beyond any act of terrorism or the hateful vision of those who perpetrated the crimes this evening."

British Prime Minister David Cameron, whose country was hit by a series of coordinated suicide bombings in 2005 in which 52 people were killed and hundreds wounded, described the attacks as "horrifying and sickening".

"We will do whatever we can to help."

European Union foreign policy chief Federica Mogherini said the attacks had given new meaning to global efforts to solve the war in Syria.

"It's another sad day and the meeting we are having in Vienna today is taking another kind of meaning," said Mogherini as she arrived for the meeting which is attended by 20 countries and world bodies in a bid to reach an end to the deadly crisis in Syria.

"The countries sitting around the table have almost all experienced the same pain, the same terror, the same shock over the last weeks," she said, referring to Paris, Lebanon, Russia, Egypt, Turkey.

Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev said his country shares “sadness and the pain of the French people... Terrorist crimes are not and cannot be justified. The Paris tragedy requires of us all to unite in the fight against extremism, to bring a strong answer to terrorists' actions."

"I strongly condemn these crimes against humanity," Iranian President Hassan Rouhani said, as Tehran announced he would postpone a scheduled trip to Paris.

President Recep Tayyip Erdogan of Turkey, said: "As a country that knows very well the manner and consequences of terrorism, we understand perfectly the suffering that France is experiencing now."

Spanish foreign minister, Jose Manuel Garcia Margallo, said “all of this confirms that we are facing an unprecedented challenge, a hugely cruel challenge."

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, said the “news from Paris is anguishing & dreadful."

Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull, said: "It is a global struggle for freedom against those who seek to suppress it and seek to assert some form of religious tyranny; a threat in the name of God but is truthfully the work of the devil."