EU lawmakers: Israel must end settlement expansion

These are some of the headlines we are tracking for you in this edition of Press TV's Top 5:

• The Turkish army shells positions held by Kurds who are fighting terrorists in northern Syria for the second day in a row.
  
• Saudi Arabia confirms sending warplanes to NATO member Turkey's Incirlik air base, for what Riyadh calls the fight against terrorists.
  
• The European Parliament severely criticizes Britain for its continued arms trade with Saudi Arabia, amid growing evidence of Riyadh’s indiscriminate bombing of Yemen.
  
• A group of European parliamentarians call for an immediate stop to the expansion of Israeli settlements and the demolition of Palestinian homes.
  
• A new UN report shows that civilian casualties of the war in Afghanistan rose to record levels for the seventh year in a row in 2015.

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