Globe Trot: After attacks, French conservatives win big in elections

FRANCE: The far-right National Front party, led by Marine Le Pen, scored its best results ever in regional elections following the Paris terror attacks and worries over the security of the European migrant influx. Repeated efforts to dismantle the “Jungle,” a restive migrant camp near Calais, show the tensions for Europeans and hardships for migrants.

BELGIUM: Former U.S. Rep. Mark Siljander, R-Mich., who served a year in prison for lobbying for an Islamic organization with ties to terrorism, was a key speaker at last week’s European Prayer Breakfast in Brussels. Siljander, who pleaded guilty in 2010 to obstruction of justice charges, upon release proclaimed his innocence, saying his Muslim co-defendants lied. He has continued a controversial campaign aimed at interfaith reconciliation called Bridges to Common Ground.

UNITED STATES: President Barack Obama gave a prime-time speech last night in response to the San Bernardino terrorist attack. The president promised to “destroy ISIL and any other organization that tries to harm us,” but pledged no new military strategy to do that. The points he outlined were familiar, but showed the unusual divide between and within parties over the national security priority.

SYRIA: Germany on Friday gave a green light to deploying naval and air forces in the fight against ISIS in Syria, joining Great Britain in the wake of the November attacks in Paris. For many in Syria’s Armenian Christian community, military action is coming too late, and they are leaving Syria, for good.

IRAQ: Concerns about airspace increasingly crowded with competing warplanes forced Kurdish authorities to halt commercial flights into Kurdistan’s two largest airports for 48 hours.

PEARL HARBOR: The dwindling number of military personnel who survived the attack on Pearl Harbor 74 years ago today still remember the day that lives in infamy.