On Jan. 7 in Paris, France, two men, brothers Cherif and Said Kouachi — armed with assault rifles — entered the offices of Charlie Hebdo, a satirical French magazine, and opened fire on the staff. They killed 11 people and injured another 11, then killed a police officer as they made their escape. Witnesses reported the men yelled “God is great” and “We have avenged the Prophet Muhammad” during their attack.

Charlie Hebdo had often been the target of threats for printing cartoons that...

A suicide bomber blew herself up in a Turkish police station on Jan. 6, killing herself and one officer and wounding another officer. The attack happened near the Blue Mosque and Hagia Sophia in the Sultanahmet district.

Days earlier, on Jan. 1, no one was injured when a man threw grenades at police officers stationed at the prime minister’s office.

The Marxist and anti-Western militant organization Revolutionary People’s Liberation Front, known in Turkey as DKHP-C, claimed...

A suspected Israeli air strike on Jan. 18 in Syria at the Golan Heights killed at least seven people, including one Iranian general and six Hezbollah fighters from Lebanon. An Iranian spokesperson said that the fighters were there to support Syrian President Bashar al-Assad in the region, which has been in rebel hands since 2013. 

The strike occurred near the city of Quneitra in the UN-supervised Golan Heights buffer zone. The buffer zone, created as part of the Agreement of...