France on Tuesday called for an “immediate” UN Security Council meeting on Aleppo to tackle the “humanitarian disaster” in the besieged Syrian city. “More than ever, there is an urgent need for a cessation of hostilities and unhindered access to humanitarian assistance”, Foreign Minister Jean-Marc Ayrault said in a statement ...
US intelligence helped French warplanes target Algerian militant Mokhtar Belmokhtar, one of Al-Qaeda’s key allies in North Africa, and believes he was killed, an American official told AFP Monday. Belmokhtar, a notorious faction commander in the Al-Murabitoun ‘jihadist’ group, was likely killed in a strike in Libya earlier this month, ...