Turkey has yet to take a decision to meet the demand for the EU to contribute to the mission to deploy troops in Central African Republic, but plans to send an officer of the army group and a plane.

The French defense minister said forces have killed about 40 suspected jihadists in sweeps in northern Mali in recent weeks. Jean-Yves Le Drian says militants linked to al Qaeda’s north African wing have recently been trying to regroup. French

The Russian parliament approved a treaty to Crimea part of Russia as well as Ukraine declared the area an “occupied territory” and threatened to go nuclear.