Monday, December 7, 2015

News You May Have Missed

• A possible U.S.-led coalition airstrike in Syria killed four Syrian military personnel. • Iraq's Foreign Ministry called a meeting with the Turkish ambassador to demand Ankara pull out its troops deployed to the Nargizliya militia camp near Mosul. • The Arab League condemned the deployment. • Four British carried out a second set of airstrikes over Syria, targeting the Omar oil fields in the eastern part of the country. • Libya's two rival parliaments made an initial agreement to end the country's political crisis, Libyan officials said. • French military aircraft flew two reconnaissance missions near the Libyan towns of Sirte and Tobruk. • The governor of Aden was killed in a car bomb attack claimed by the Islamic State in Yemen's southern port city. • Electricity supplies to Crimea will restored soon, Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko said. • France’s far-right National Front party made record gains in the first round of the country’s regional elections, winning nearly 29 percent of the vote on a national level and finishing first in at least six of 13 regions. • The Greek parliament approved a 2016 budget, forecasting near zero growth for 2015 and a small contraction next year. • Police arrested a suspect following a Syria-related stabbing at the Leytonstone tube station in London. • Latvian Prime Minister Laimdota Straujuma resigned.