TERRORIST attacks in Paris killed 129 people on November 13. On the
same day, a roadside bombing in Baghdad murdered 26 and on the day
before those attacks, 43 people were killed by suicide bombers in
Beirut.
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| Treating the recent terrorist attacks in the shadow of the Eiffel Tower as acts of war may not necessarily be the best answer in terms of international law, the writer argues. |
A Russian jet crashed over the Sinai Peninsula last month, killing
224 people. The Islamic State (IS) claimed responsibility. Pope Francis
warned that a "piecemeal" third world war may have begun with the
current spate of massacres and destruction.
"France is at war," declared French President François Hollande after
the attacks on Paris. He called on the US and Russia to join a global
coalition to destroy IS and announced a wave of measures to combat
terrorism in France.
