The U.S. government objects to calling ISIS a state. But the military bombs the trappings of statehood: oil facilities, financial resources and "cabinet ministers."
A third man has been charged in connection with an alleged plot to launch a new attack in Paris. Meanwhile, a "march against fear" planned in Brussels on Sunday has been called off.
Studio Donegal in Ireland is the tweed manufacturing equivalent of a micro-brewery. The small mill is weaving authentic tweed garments, helping to revive an old Irish tradition.
A local leader of Germany's far-right NPD party, which has campaigned for closed borders, crashed his car. NPR's Scott Simon reflects on the irony of what happened next: refugees stopped and helped.
NPR's Scott Simon talks with journalist Julian Borger, author of The Butcher's Trail, about the trial of Bosnian war criminal Radovan Karadzic which ended this week in The Hague.
The notion of European unity is being tested by terrorist attacks, the migrant crisis and the rise of far-right political groups. Scott Simon talks with former U.S. ambassador to NATO Ivo Daalder.