France terror attacks

Paris Mayor Anne Hidalgo, left in sash, attends a ceremony honoring the victims of the 2012 Toulouse Jewish school shooting, on May 19, 2019, by naming two alleys in the city after the three victims. (Anne Hidalgo/Twitter/via JTA)

May 21, 2019, 10:45 pm

Paris alleys dedicated to children killed in Toulouse Jewish school attack

‘The families wanted these plaques to be in a square, a place alive with laughter and swings,’ Paris mayor says at dedication; Toulouse to debate its own tribute

By Marcy Oster

Men suspected of being Islamic State fighters are searched by members of the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) after leaving the Islamic State's last holdout of Baghouz in Syria's northern Deir Ezzor province, February 22, 2019.
(Bulent Kilic/AFP)

February 25, 2019, 11:42 pm

Iraq saves France from thorny repatriations of Islamic State jihadists

French citizens accused of terrorism transferred to Baghdad for trial as Paris rocked with controversy over its nationals fleeing collapsing ‘caliphate’

By Ali Choukeir

French police officers patrol in the streets of Strasbourg, France, on December 13, 2018, two days after a deadly terror attack in the city. (AP Photo/Christophe Ena)

December 13, 2018, 3:17 pm

French police try to catch Strasbourg terror attack suspect, dead or alive

Over 700 officers take part in manhunt for jihadist Cherif Chekatt, 29, who has been convicted 27 times and was on an extremism watch list

By Sylvie Corbet

Two members of the French police unit BRI (Research and Intervention Brigade - Brigades de recherche et d'intervention) walk on the Pont de l'Europe, crossing the border with Germany over the river Rhine in Strasbourg, December 12, 2018. (Frederick FLORIN/AFP)

December 12, 2018, 12:33 pm

5 detained in Christmas market attack in France

Hundreds of security personnel join search for suspected gunman Cherif Chekatt, who may have crossed into Germany

By Agencies

A policeman patrols in the rue des Grandes Arcades in Strasbourg, eastern France, after a shooting at a Christmas market in the area on December 11, 2018. (Sebastien Bozon/AFP)

December 12, 2018, 9:13 am

French police, troops hunt for gunman who killed 3 at Strasbourg market

Attacker, a 29-year-old suspected Islamist terrorist, was wounded in exchange of fire with soldiers patrolling the area, but managed to escape

By Herve ASQUIN

French forensic officers arrive to inspect a vehicle (center, hood up) believed to belong to terrorist Radouane Lakdim, and parked outside the Super U supermarket in the town of Trebes in southern France, where Lakdim carried out his attack, on March 23, 2018. (AFP Photo/Pascal Pavani)

October 20, 2018, 3:54 pm

France charges three over supermarket terror attack

Four people were killed in March when Redouane Lakdim went on a shooting spree and took hostages, including a police officer who traded himself for a hostage

By Agencies and TOI staff

Chief Rabbi of France Haim Korsia speaks to journalists on June 22, 2014, in Paris. (AFP/Fred Dufor)

September 17, 2018, 6:55 pm

French chief rabbi suggests special Yom Kippur prayer for terror victims

Haim Korsia says participating in national memorial that falls on Day of Atonement is a ‘deeply Jewish’ way to honor victims

By JTA

Police officers cordon off the area after a knife attack in central Paris, May 12, 2018. (AP/Thibault Camus)

May 13, 2018, 1:15 pm

Paris knife attacker was on terror watch list

Sources in investigation of deadly spree say slain Chechen assailant was on ‘S list’ of suspected radical extremists

By AFP

French police secure the area outside the Super U supermarket in the town of Trebes, southern France, where a man took hostages killing at least two before he was killed by security forces on March 23, 2018. (AFP PHOTO / RAYMOND ROIG)

March 29, 2018, 4:40 pm

French vegan faces terror charge over dead butcher comment

Activist could go to jail for saying man killed by Trebes supermarket gunman in Islamist attack deserved his fate

By AFP

French President Emmanuel Macron posthumously awards the Legion of Honor to Lt. Col. Arnaud Beltrame during a ceremony Wednesday March 28, 2018 at the Hotel des Invalides in Paris. (AP Photo/Christophe Ena)

March 28, 2018, 3:09 pm

Slain French policeman hero honored in grand national homage

During daylong ceremony in Paris, Macron to award country’s highest honor to Arnaud Beltrame, who swapped himself for hostage during terror attack

By Agencies

A man places flowers at the main gate of the police headquarters in Carcassonne, France, on Saturday, March 24, 2018, following an attack on a supermarket in the south of France on Friday. (AP Photo/Emilio Morenatti)

March 26, 2018, 5:48 pm

France to honor slain hero police officer Wednesday

French president to attend event for Lt. Col. Arnaud Beltrame, killed by Islamist gunman; police question dead terrorist’s girlfriend, said known to police as ‘radicalized’

By Sylvie Corbet

In this image dated March 2013 and provided by regional newspaper Ouest France, Arnaud Beltrame poses for a photo in Avranches, western France. (Ouest France via AP)

March 26, 2018, 8:44 am

French politician arrested for tweet celebrating policeman’s death

Stephane Poussier held ‘for justifying acts of terrorism’ after welcoming death of Arnaud Beltrame, killed in terror rampage on Friday

By AFP

March 24, 2018, 8:54 am

Heroic French officer who swapped himself for hostage in terror attack dies

Death of Arnaud Beltrame raises toll to four in Friday’s assault in southern France, claimed by Islamic State

By Agencies

French National Gendarmerie Intervention Group troops and gendarmes gather outside the Super U supermarket in the town of Trebes, southwestern France, where a terrorist took hostages before he was killed by security forces on March 23, 2018. (AFP Photo/Eric Cabanis)

March 23, 2018, 7:39 pm

French Jews pay condolences to victims of terror attack

Umbrella group for French Jewry says assault Friday in which 3 were killed ‘reawakens in us the fear and pain’ of 2015 shooting at Kosher supermarket

By Agencies

French security and police gather outside the Super U supermarket in the town of Trebes, southern France, where a terrorist took hostages and killed at least two before he was killed by security forces, on March 23, 2018. (AFP Photo/Pascal Pavani)

March 23, 2018, 7:07 pm

Islamic State claims responsibility for French terror attack that kills three

France’s interior minister names terrorist as Redouane Lakdim, says he was under surveillance at the time of the assault

By AFP