LONDON (AP) — What started as a distant civil war in Syria, with rebel factions challenging the authoritarian government of President Bashar Assad, has become Europe’s war, with no easy end in sight.
The coordinated attacks in Paris brought suicide bombing to France for the first time and left 129 dead, driving home the dangers of having an extremist group in control of territory so close to Europe.
Anand Menon, professor of European Politics at King’s College London, said the Islamic State group is attacking at a time when EU unity is already badly frayed by a prolonged financial crisis, Russia’s intervention …read more
Source: San Francisco Chronicle
