‘We have highest tax rate in the county because we are paying for so many immigrants.’

“We Europeans will show our free life is stronger than any terror,” Merkel says.

RT | Lavrov added that many Russian partners called the incident “an obvious ambush.”

“Turkey’s actions are de facto protection of Islamic State.”

Putin called the downing “a stab in the back,” and warned it would have serious consequences…

Captain Konstantin Murakhtin told a Russian TV station that his plane was flying over Syrian territory and did not violate Turkish airspace.

CNS News | The U.S. military conducted a second wave of attacks on (parked) ISIS oil tankers in Syria on Sunday, Nov. 22, but the attack fell short of its goal.

London Guardian | Navigator of Su-24 jet rescued after Syrian special forces and Hezbollah conduct 12-hour operation in rebel-held territory.

RT | Some Turkish officials have ‘direct financial interest’ in the oil trade with the terrorist group Islamic State.

Airspace violation contested.

Increased global traffic along the continent’s migrant routes.