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FILE - In this Feb. 4, 2016 file-pool photo, Secretary of State John Kerry at a conference entitled 'Supporting Syria &amp; The Region,' in London. As Kerry heads to Munich, Wednesday, Feb. 10, 2016, in search of compromises that could yield a truce and revive peace talks that were suspended before they really started, the administration is being pressed by all sides to clarify its strategy. (Nicholas Kamm/Pool Photo via AP, File)

Obama administration opening 2-front campaign on Syria

By MATTHEW LEE - Associated Press

Crowds cheer as the countdown hits zero and fireworks begin during a New Year's Day celebration at the Quezon Memorial Circle in suburban Quezon city, north of Manila, Philippines on Thursday, Jan. 1, 2015. (AP Photo/Aaron Favila)

Brussels New Year’s Eve fireworks show cancelled amid terrorism fears

By Kellan Howell - The Washington Times

FILE - In this Saturday, Nov. 14, 2015 file photo, police guard a street in Brussels where arrests were made linked to the attacks in Paris. Belgium's federal prosecutor's office spokesman Jean-Pascal Thoreau says the arrests came after a car with Belgian license plates was seen close to the Bataclan theater in Paris on Friday night, one of the places where victims were killed. (AP Photo) BELGIUM OUT

Belgian police arrest 2 suspects in New Year’s, ISIS-inspired terror plot

By Kellan Howell - The Washington Times

A rail worker on strike talks with a commuter at the Brussels South rail station on Oct. 9. The rail strike in the Belgian capital paralyzed much of the train traffic on domestic and international lines linking London, Paris and Amsterdam to Brussels. (Associated Press)

Belgium sours on unions amid frequent strikes

By Linda A. Thompson - Special to The Washington Times

NATO Supreme Allied Commander General Philip Breedlove (center) speaks with Czech Army General Petr Pavel (left) and French Air Force General Denis Mercier as the mutual-defense organization considers admitting Montenegro, a move Moscow says reverts to a Cold War policy of "containing" Russia. (Associated Press)

Montenegro invited to join NATO, a move sure to anger Russia, strain alliance’s standards

By Guy Taylor - The Washington Times

Police set up a barricade during an operation in the center of Brussels on Sunday, Nov. 22, 2015. (AP Photo/Virginia Mayo)

Belgium police arrest 21; Paris fugitive still at large

By Lorne Cook and Sylvie Corbet - Associated Press

Belgian Army soldiers patrol in the picturesque Grand Place in the center of Brussels on Friday, Nov. 20, 2015. Salah Abdeslam, a French national who lived in Molenbeek, Belgium, is currently the subject of an international manhunt after the Paris attacks. Security has been stepped up in parts of Belgium as a precaution. (AP Photo/Geert Vanden Wijngaert) ** FILE **

Brussels under serious threat after Paris attacks

By John-Thor Dahlburg - Associated Press

This undated image made available in the Islamic State's English-language magazine Dabiq, shows Belgian Abdelhamid Abaaoud. (Militant photo via AP)

Abdelhamid Abaaoud, mastermind of Paris attacks, confirmed dead in police raid

By Angela Charlton and Raf Casert - Associated Press

Police guard a street in which special intervention forces search a house in the Molenbeek neighborhood in Brussels on Tuesday. "We don't have control of the situation in Molenbeek at present," Belgian Interior Minister Jan Jambon admitted during a television news interview on Sunday. (Associated Press)

Belgium in spotlight as terror fears grip continent

By Linda A. Thompson and Aida Alami - Special to The Washington Times

A man reacts as he gets pushed back by Croatian police officers in Opatovac, Croatia, Tuesday, Sept. 22, 2015. Scuffles have broken out between Croatian police and asylum-seekers after they were barred from entering a newly opened reception center meant to register those seeking sanctuary in Europe. (AP Photo/Marko Drobnjakovic)

Migrants scuffle with Croatian police; EU to hold talks

By Iuliia Subbotovska and Danica Kirka - Associated Press

Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras arrives for a meeting of eurozone heads of state at the EU Council building in Brussels on Sunday, July 12, 2015. (AP Photo/Francois Walschaerts)

Greece reaches deal with creditors, avoids euro exit

By Pan Pylas and Raf Casert - Associated Press

A Greek Orthodox priest walks by the poster of "NO" and posters depicting German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble, top center, reading ''For five years he is drinking your blood, now tell him NO'' referring to the upcoming referendum in central Athens, on Friday, July 3, 2015. (AP Photo/Petros Karadjias)

After vote win, Greece P.M. Alexis Tsipras looks to rebuild talks

By Derek Gatopoulos and Elena Becatoros - Associated Press

FILE - In this Tuesday, June 11, 2013 file photo, Russian President Vladimir Putin, right, visits the new headquarters of the &quot;Russia Today&quot; television channel in Moscow, Russia. Major brands in the export division of Russian media include RT, the RIA Novosti news agency and its English-language arm Sputnik, and the Voice of Russia radio station. Despite the pounding Russia’s economy is taking from the slump in the price of crude oil and the West’s Ukraine-related sanctions, the annual government budget allocation for RT alone has been hiked by 30 percent since 2014, to the ruble equivalent of $289 million. (Yuri Kochetkov/Pool Photo via AP, File)

Europe seeks to counter Kremlin success pushing world view

By JOHN-THOR DAHLBURG and NATALIYA VASILYEVA - Associated Press

Greece's Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras speaks with visiting Austrian Chancellor Werner Faymann in Athens, Greece, on Wednesday, June 17, 2015. (AP Photo/Yorgos Karahalis) ** FILE **

Europe cautiously optimistic of Greek debt deal this week

By Lorne Cook and Raf Casert - Associated Press

Greece's Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras arrives for a meeting at the Education Ministry in Athens, Tuesday, June 2, 2015. Tsipras says Greece has submitted a proposal for an agreement with its creditors, as Athens seeks a deal that will to unlock desperately needed rescue money. (AP Photo/Thanassis Stavrakis)

Alexis Tsipras, Greek prime minister, heads to Brussels to defend bailout proposal

By Elena Becatoros - Associated Press

In this photo made available Thursday, April 23, 2015, migrants crowd and inflatable dinghy as rescue vassel "Denaro" of the Italian Coast Guard approaches them, off the Libyan coast, in the Mediterranean Sea, Wednesday, April 22, 2015. European Union leaders gathering for an extraordinary summit are facing calls from all sides to take emergency action to save lives in the Mediterranean, where hundreds of migrants are missing and feared drowned in recent days. (Alessandro Di Meo/ANSA via AP Photo)

EU leaders face calls to take swift action on Mediterranean migrants

By Lorne Cook and Raf Casert - Associated Press

FILE - In this Jan. 8, 2015 file photo French riot officers patrol in Longpont, north of Paris, France. EU interior ministers meeting in Brussels on Thursday, March 12, 2015, were to be asked to decide that the passports of everyone leaving or entering the 26-nation Schengen area should be checked against databases to ensure they are not stolen, forged or void. The EU made fighting terrorism a top priority after the Jan. 7-9 attacks in Paris that claimed 17 victims. (AP Photo/Thibault Camus, File)

EU ministers beef up anti-terror measures

By JOHN-THOR DAHLBURG - Associated Press

Greece's Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras gestures during a Presidential vote in Athens, on Wednesday, Feb. 18, 2015. (Associated Press)

Germany rejects Greek olive branch on eve of bailout talks

By Nicholas Paphitis and Elena Becatoros - Associated Press

German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble speaks with the media as he arrives for a meeting of Eurogroup finance ministers at the EU Council building in Brussels, Monday, Feb. 16, 2015. (AP Photo/Virginia Mayo)

Eurozone meeting on Greece bailout ends amid discord

By Lorne Cook - Associated Press

European group seeks 24/7 protection at Jewish institutions

By JOHN-THOR DAHLBURG - Associated Press