The US launched a major new military campaign against ISIS on Monday. Pentagon Press Secretary Peter Cook said the airstrikes “would continue as long as [the Libyan government] is requesting them,” and that they do not have “an end point at this particular moment in time.” Source: The Intercept
Yemen’s Houthis fired a salvo of ballistic missiles at Saudi Arabia’s capital on Wednesday – an attack Saudi authorities said they intercepted in the skies over Riyadh. Source Reuters
Deputy Minister Mark Harbers (VVD) of Immigration is critical of the plan of the new coalition in Amsterdam for the reception of asylum seekers who have exhausted all legal remedies. The plan not only goes against government policy, but is possibly also in violation of the law, Harbers thinks. Source Elsevier
Serious clashes between residents at the migrant reception and processing center of Moria on the eastern Aegean island of Lesvos on Friday afternoon left six people injured. Source Ekhatimerini
