RUSSIA

A senior European diplomat told Reuters this week that Western leaders at the G20 in Antalya agreed on the margins of the meeting to extend the sanctions.

Firm gains came as Wall Street shares closed flat overnight in a pre-Thanksgiving holiday lull and Asian stocks closed modestly higher.

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.

Russian President Vladimir Putin also said Turkey was deliberately trying to hurt relations between the two countries.

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.

U.S. stock indexes rose slightly ahead of the Thanksgiving holiday.

Turkey's military released what it claimed was an audio recording of a warning given to a Russian fighter jet before it was shot down close to the Syrian border.

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

Russia's intense policing policies in the North Caucasus region could be helping ISIS recruiters, according to local residents.

Government forces caused the vast majority of children's deaths, but rebel forces and international airstrikes are also to blame, the report found.

Capt. Konstantin Murakhtin also said Wednesday there was “no way” the jet could have violated Turkish airspace.

“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.

In the wake of Turkish forces downing a Russian warplane, Russia's tourism agency has called for travel packages to Turkey to be suspended.

Parisians have been asked not drive their cars ahead of the COP21 climate summit, and protests ahead of the event have been banned.

Turkey boosted the number of warplanes patrolling its border with Syria, after it shot down a Russian fighter jet following its alleged violation of Turkish airspace Tuesday.

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov also said his country does not have any "intention to go to war with Turkey."

Ukraine and Russia have been involved in a dispute over gas deliveries since last year, following Crimea’s annexation by Moscow.

While Russian President Vladimir Putin calls it being “stabbed in the back,” his U.S. counterpart Barack Obama has said Turkey has the right to protect its borders.

French President François Hollande is meeting with world leaders to step up the offensive against the Islamic State group in response to the Paris attacks.

One of the two Russian pilots, who ejected from the Sukhoi Su-24M warplane shot down by Turkey, will reportedly be taken to the Russian airbase.

U.S. stocks rose as the incident boosted oil prices, fueling energy stocks.