Turkey Attacks Afrin in Syria : January 2018

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Turkey is continuing its assault on the Kurdish city of Afrin, an operation President Erdogan claims to be aimed at routing out the YPG group from the Turkish border.

Ankara claims that this group is allied with the PKK Kurdistan Worker`s Party, a listed terrorist organization in Turkey.

"We are determined, Afrin will be sorted out," declared Erdogan triumphantly as he addressed the nation on Monday. "We will take no step back," he continued, "We spoke about this with our Russian friends; we have an agreement."

Russia occupies a vital place in the Syrian civil war since their intervention at the behest of Syrian President Bashaar al Assad, if, as Ergodan affirms, there is indeed an agreement between the two nations then that would entail the removal of a possible stumbling block in the action.

Police Woman Stabbed in Toulouse, France 30/8/2016

A stabbing has taken place against a police officer in the French city of Toulouse at a police station. .

The suspect who has since been arrested , is a 31 year old man of Algerian origin who the authorities say first attempted to steal the officers weapon but upon being unsuccessful proceeded to stab her in the neck multiple times.

It is believed that the man entered the building in order to make a complaint before launching the attack. Authorities say that the man`s motives remain unclear at the current time.

France has been under a state of emergency since the November 13 attacks in Paris which led to 130 people being killed in a series of coordinated shootings and suicide bombings in different parts of the city. This year an attack in Nice by a jihadi terrorist killed 84 people, leaving many wounded which led to the government extending the state of emergency giving them extraordinary powers to combat the threat that France currently faces.