Friday News Roundup – International (Diane Rehm Show, 2015-12-18)

U.S.-led airstrikes kill nearly 200 ISIS fighters in northern Iraq, helping repel the group’s most serious offensive in months. Saudi Arabia announces a coalition of Arab and Muslim countries to combat the ISIS threat. World leaders meet at the U.N. to weigh a new Syrian peace plan. Belgium says a law limiting raids may have allowed a suspect in the Paris attacks to escape. After months of escalating violence, the U.N.’s human rights chief says Burundi is on the cusp of civil war. And the army announces Bowe Bergdahl will face a court martial for deserting his post in Afghanistan.
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