The head of the European Union foreign policy Federica Mogherini is considering asking the European Union to consider sending troops into Libya to allow the formation of a national unity government, but the plan is for now received with great skepticism by individual EU governments are very concerned about the risks it entails.

It will be the next meeting of EU foreign ministers to be held in Brussels this week that can be attributed or not to Mogherini the right to develop proposals for a possible mission in Libya.

Finally, the European Union has decided, governments and security forces will have to work more closely in order to control the threats and violence of terrorism such as those that took place in Paris last week.

Like France has deployed its troops in the streets, the Hungarian prime minister formally asked Europe to close the doors to immigration, and many EU countries are considering to change the rules of travel "without a passport".

The largest oil refinery in Iraq is under siege from June this year. 

On Wednesday the Iraqi military unleashed an offensive up to about 2 km from the city of Baijii in order to regain the largest oil refinery in the country besieged by militants of the Islamic state. 

The Secretary of State John Kerry and the Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov have reached an agreement, despite the crisis in Ukraine, for an increase of common intelligence about militants ISIS, putting aside brouhaha, focusing on a common enemy. 

Speaking in Paris with his Russian counterpart, Kerry said that the two world powers despite the new "Cold War", due to the role played by Russia in Ukraine, have found ways to work together on global issues although there are large differences in a number of areas.