Week in Review: Islamic State Attack in Paris, China in Middle East, Germany Into Syria? and Much More
- The Islamic State carried out a terrorist attack in Paris last night—just two days before French voters go to the polls for the first round of presidential elections in France. How might this affect French politics?
- Turkish voters awarded even more power to President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan last Sunday in a referendum. Erdoğan was congratulated by United States President Donald Trump.
- China is getting more deeply involved in the Middle East, positioning itself as a friend to all and an enemy to none.
- Germany’s defense minister says that the United Nations should intervene in Syria once the civil war ends; she offered to send in German troops.
- Also: Russia amassing troops on its border with North Korea—a Nation of Islam believer on a murder spree in California—an update on Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s reelection prospects—and how millions of millennials are living a life of leisure with no job and no school in mom’s basement.
