France’s lower house of Parliament Wednesday voted to extend the nation’s state of emergency until July 15, 2017. It is the fifth extension of the state of emergency, first put in place in November 2015 after attacks by the so-called ‘Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant’ (ISIL) terrorist group ...
French President Francois Hollande on Wednesday joined calls for international observers to oversee the evacuation of civilians trapped under fire in the Syrian city of Aleppo. At a meeting with his defence cabinet, Hollande said those trapped by the fighting should “be evacuated in a dignified and safe manner, under ...
