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In this Oct. 16, 2014, file photo an Airbus 320 of Germanwings is parked at the airport as their pilots went on strike in Duesseldorf, Germany. A Germanwings Airbus plane with at least 142 passengers, two pilots and four flight attendants on board has crashed in the Alps region Tuesday, March 24, 2015. (AP Photo/Frank Augstein)

Jet crashes in Alps with 150 aboard; no survivors expected

By Lori Hinnant and Claude Paris - Associated Press

Tunisians holding candles pray at the entrance gate of the National Bardo Museum where scores of people were killed after gunmen staged an attack, Tunis, Wednesday, March 18, 2015. Foreign tourists scrambled in panic Wednesday after militants stormed a museum in Tunisia's capital and killed scores of people, &quot;shooting at anything that moved,&quot; a witness said. (AP Photo/Michel Euler)

Tunisia: Gunman known to intelligence ahead of attack

By Jamey Keaten and Bouazza Ben Bouazza - Associated Press

Slowing the nuclear clock Illustration by Greg Groesch/The Washington Times

ROBERT KNIGHT: Iran letter worth Obama embarrassment if it halts bad nuclear deal

By Robert Knight

A man stands near the smoking remains of a helicopter that crashed with another near Villa Castelli in the La Rioja province of Argentina on Monday. Two helicopters carrying passengers filming the popular European reality show “Dropped” crashed Monday in a remote area of northwest Argentina, killing everyone on board, authorities said. (Associated Press)

French Olympians among 10 dead in Argentina air crash

By Debora Rey and Peter Prengaman - Associated Press

BOOK REVIEW: ‘Massacre: The Life and Death of the Paris Commune’

By Joseph C. Goulden

This undated image frame grab from a video released Friday, Oct. 3, 2014, by Islamic State militants shows the militant who beheaded taxi driver Alan Henning. (AP Photo, File)

PETER MORICI: Aiding terrorist recruitment

By Peter Morici

Madonna performs at the Brit Awards 2015 at the 02 Arena in London, Wednesday, Feb. 25, 2015. (Photo by Joel Ryan/Invision/AP)

Madonna denounces rise of far right in Europe

Associated Press

French President Francois Hollande delivers a speech during his visit on the French nuclear aircraft carrier Charles de Gaulle to present his New Year wishes to the French military troops, Wednesday, Jan. 14, 2015, off the coast of Toulon, southern France. (AP Photo/Anne Christine Poujoulat, Pool) ** FILE **

France deploys aircraft carrier to Persian Gulf to fight Islamic State

By Cheryl K. Chumley - The Washington Times

France's President Francois Hollande salutes the French flag as part of his visit to a public center for insertion of the Defense (EPIDE) in Montry, northeastern Monday, Feb. 16, 2015. (AP Photo/Jacques Brinon/Pool)

Francois Hollande: Anti-Semitism, anti-Muslim acts threaten France

By Sylvie Corbet - Associated Press

Former International Monetary Fund boss Dominique Strauss-Kahn leaves his hotel in Lille, northern France, Wednesday, Feb. 11, 2015, as he goes on trial for sex charges at a court. Strauss-Kahn sat nonchalantly with folded-arms and stretched legs Tuesday, before telling a French court he was completely unaware that women who participated in orgies at luxury hotels in Paris and Washington were prostitutes. (AP Photo/Christophe Ena)

Dominique Strauss-Kahn trial: 5 plaintiffs drop pimping accusations against DSK

By Philippe Sotto and Angela Charlton - Associated Press

In this Aug. 29, 2012 file photo, Lance Armstrong speaks to delegates at the World Cancer Congress in Montreal. A three-man arbitration panel has ordered Armstrong and Tailwind Sports to pay $10 million in a fraud dispute with SCA Promotions, the promotions company announced Monday, Feb. 16, 2015. (AP Photo/The Canadian Press, Graham Hughes, File)

Lance Armstrong must pay $10M to SCA Promotions

By Jessica Chasmar - The Washington Times

Former International Monetary Fund boss Dominique Strauss-Kahn leaves his hotel in Lille, northern France, Wednesday, Feb. 11, 2015, as he goes on trial for sex charges at a court. Strauss-Kahn sat nonchalantly with folded-arms and stretched legs Tuesday, before telling a French court he was completely unaware that women who participated in orgies at luxury hotels in Paris and Washington were prostitutes. (AP Photo/Christophe Ena)

Dominique Strauss-Kahn on trial: Shocking sex, but weak case against him

By Philippe Sotto and Angela Charlton - Associated Press

French interior minister Bernard Cazeneuve addresses reporters at the end of a crisis meeting with French President Francois Hollande, at the Elysee Palace in Paris, Friday Jan. 9, 2015. Investigators are scrutinizing the recent past of two brothers with al-Qaida sympathies, as a manhunt for the suspects in the newsroom massacre at a satirical French weekly enters its third day. (AP Photo/Remy de la Mauviniere)

Hundreds of Jewish graves vandalized in eastern France

By Jessica Chasmar - The Washington Times

Ukraine's President Petro Poroshenko holds Russian passports claiming they are proof of the presence of Russian troops in Ukraine as he addresses the 51. Security Conference in Munich, Germany, Saturday, Feb. 7, 2015. The conference on security policy takes place from Feb. 6, 2015 until Feb. 8, 2015. (AP Photo/Stringer)

Petro Poroshenko, Ukraine president, pushes for fast cease-fire, defensive arms

Associated Press

Ukrainian forces have lost hundreds of square miles more than was agreed under the Minsk Protocol. U.S. and Ukrainian officials say separatists in the east are pushing to establish a land bridge from Russia's mainland to Crimea. (Associated Press)

Angela Merkel, Francois Hollande being led into ‘trap’ in Russia peace talks, Ukraine says

By Guy Taylor - The Washington Times

Soldiers stand guard after an attacker with a knife hidden in his bag attacked three soldiers on an anti-terror patrol in front of a Jewish community center in Nice, southern France, Tuesday Feb.3, 2015 . France has been on high alert since the attacks in the Paris region by three Islamic extremists that left 20 people dead, including the gunmen. More than 10,000 soldiers have been deployed around the country to protect sensitive locations, including major shopping areas, synagogues, mosques and transit hubs. (AP Photo/Lionel Cironneau)

Ex-criminal turned back in Turkey attacks 3 French soldiers

By JAMEY KEATEN - Associated Press

Anti-terrorism marchers in Paris display solidarity with Charlie Hebdo cartoonists killed in the Jan. 7 attacks in the city, which left 17 dead. (Rex Features via AP Images)

EDITORIAL: Charlie Hebdo massacre a Voltaire comeback

By THE WASHINGTON TIMES

The socialist government of President Francois Hollande last week announced steps to increase counterterrorism surveillance and to intervene in the classroom to blunt the message of radical Islam in France. (Associated Press)

France’s ethnic apartheid: ‘Separate Islamic societies’ breed discontent, radicalism

By Rowan Scarborough - The Washington Times

Illustration on the impact of anti-Semitism on France by Alexander Hunter/The Washington Times

SUZANNE FIELDS: France’s deep history of anti-Semitism

By Suzanne Fields