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Citizens called for their government to refrain from intervening in Syria, fearing retaliatory attacks similar to the Paris massacre.

A prominent Kurdish lawyer and rights activist was shot in the head and killed on Saturday amid a period of unrest in Turkey's Kurdish southeast.

The country says the fence is designed to direct refugees to controlled points for registration, but Balkan nations reportedly have been turning away refugees for weeks.

Abdelhamid Abaaoud, the man behind the Nov. 13 Paris attacks, boasted of easily entering Europe as a refugee and mocked the EU's open-border policy, according to a report.

After meeting with Francois Hollande in Moscow Thursday, Vladimir Putin says Russia is “ready for cooperation” with France in the fight against terrorism.

The decision to commit military personnel and hardware is a shift for Germany, which has resisted such direct involvement in the conflict.

The British prime minister appealed for support from all sides in the Parliament for the country's airstrikes on the Islamic State group in Syria.

The French president, who has called for an international anti-ISIS coalition, is likely to push for greater Russian cooperation in the fight against the militant group.

The Islamic State group has released a new video hailing their supposed successes and taunting world powers to try to defeat them.

Arab officials and Iraqi residents say Kurdish forces are forcing out of their homes after recapturing cities from the Islamic State.

Calls for French leaders to expel “preachers of hate” and shut down their mosques have been echoed by the country's Muslim community.

Tunisia has been hailed by many as the Arab Spring’s success story but the country remains a target of terrorist attacks.

Activists say it's important to decry anti-Muslim bias in the West -- but the same standards should apply in Muslim-majority countries.

German Chancellor Angela Merkel continues to defend her open-arms policy, while Poland requests a review of the EU's quota plan in the wake of the terrorist attacks in Paris.

“It is the call to glory and adventure that moves these young people to join the Islamic State,” a terrorism expert told the U.N.'s counterterrorism committee.

The Islamic State group purportedly released the threats in a new video telling the French, "We will come to crush your country.”

It remains unclear whether ransoms were paid for the release of the captives.

In response to the attack, President Beji Caid Essebsi declared a 30-day state of emergency and announced a nightly curfew, a report said.

The Turkmen, who are Syrian citizens of Turkish descent, have fought President Bashar Assad's government in Syria since the civil war began.

At the White House Tuesday, France and the U.S. solidified their unity in the fight against the Islamic State group and advocated de-escalation between Russia and Turkey.

Russia has sought to tout the successes of its airstrike campaign against the so-called Islamic State group in Syria, but rights groups charge Russia with targeting civilians.