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Salah Abdeslam. (ABC News screenshot)
November 8, 2025, 7:00 pm
France probes suspected terror threat linked to 2015 Paris attacker
Salah Abdeslam taken for questioning on suspicion of uploading jihadist propaganda from an illicit USB stick to his computer in prison
By AFP
This file photo taken on August 17, 2016 shows a picture of slain Father Jacques Hamel displayed inside the church of San Luigi dei Francesi in downtown Rome. (AFP Photo/Marco Zeppetella)
February 14, 2022, 10:43 am
France puts four on trial for jihadist murder of 85-year-old priest
Attackers slit Father Jacques Hamel’s throat in his Rouen church in 2016, as France was on high alert over jihadist attacks following the Charlie Hebdo massacre
By AFP
French gendarmes inspect the site where a suspect has been seen after a municipal policewoman was attacked with a knife on May 28, 2021, in La Chapelle-sur-Erdre, near Nantes, western France. (LOIC VENANCE / AFP)
May 28, 2021, 8:01 pm
Islamic radical known to French authorities shot dead after knife attack
80 officers dispatched to pursue suspect who was on terror watchlist, two wounded during exchange of fire prior to arrest after attack in La Chapelle-sur-Erdre
By Sylvie MALIGORNE and Fanny ANDRE
Police detaining a suspect on the platform at the main train station in Arras, northern France, on August 21, 2015, after an armed gunman on the train was overpowered by passengers. (AFP Photo/Courtesy of Christina Catherine Coons)
December 17, 2020, 10:06 pm
Islamic State operative jailed for life over foiled 2015 France train attack
Paris court convicts Moroccan Ayoub El Khazzani for planned terror attack thwarted by passengers, issues sentences of 7-27 years to three accomplices
By Marie DHUMIERES
A policeman stands guard on January 21, 2015, in front the Hyper Cacher kosher supermarket where jihadist gunman Amedy Coulibaly killed four Jewish men on January 9, 2015 in Paris. (AFP/Eric Feferberg)
August 27, 2020, 2:14 pm
Suspects in 2015 attacks on Charlie Hebdo, kosher market to face justice
14 alleged accomplices to go on trial next week over their links to shooting rampage in French capital that ushered in wave of Islamist violence
By Anne-Sophie LASSERRE
An undated photo of Amedy Coulibaly, jihadist killer of four Jews in a Paris kosher supermarket and of a French policewoman, and his wife Hayat Boumedienne who is sought by police. (Photo credit: Screenshot/Itele)
May 20, 2020, 8:34 pm
Wife of Hyper Cacher terrorist escapes from jihadist prison in Syria — monitor
Center for the Analysis of Terrorism says Hayat Boumedienne, whose partner killed 4 people at Paris kosher market, was one of 13 female suspects to break out of Kurdish-run jail
By AFP
A woman is evacuated from the Bataclan concert hall after a terrorist shooting attack in Paris, November 13, 2015. (AP Photo/Thibault Camus, File)
March 16, 2020, 3:42 pm
French judges order trial for 20 suspects in 2015 Paris terror attacks
Most of those charged helped plan or finance the attacks that killed 130 people, or helped the terrorists escape
By AFP
FILE - In this June 16, 2014. file photo, demonstrators chant pro-Islamic State group slogans as they carry the group's flags in front of the provincial government headquarters in Mosul, Iraq. (AP Photo, File)
January 25, 2020, 6:10 pm
French jihadist gets 22 years in prison for recruiting Islamists to Syria
Mourad Fares found guilty of enlisting youths to Islamic State, leading al-Nusra Front terrorist cell
By Anne-Sophie LASSERRE
A woman is evacuated from the Bataclan concert hall after a terrorist shooting attack in Paris, November 13, 2015. (AP Photo/Thibault Camus, File)
October 28, 2019, 7:26 pm
Survivors of 2015 IS attacks in Paris warn fight against terror not over
Killing of jihadist group’s leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, announced Sunday, sparks ‘sense of satisfaction’ for survivors and victims’ families
By Sylvie Corbet
Rescuers evacuate an injured person near the Bataclan concert hall in central Paris, early on November 14, 2015. (AFP PHOTO/MIGUEL MEDINA)
October 21, 2019, 2:50 pm
Probe into 2015 Paris jihadist rampage wraps up, paving way for trial
Prosecutors have a month to present their case to judges, who will then decide when to try the 14 people currently held in connection to the attacks that killed 130
By AFP
French President Emmanuel Macron speaks during a ceremony for the four victims of last week’s knife attack in the courtyard of the Paris police headquarters, on October 8, 2019 in Paris. - France’s presidency says the four victims of last week’s knife attack at the Paris police headquarters will be posthumously given France’s highest award, the Legion of Honor. (AP Photo/Francois Mori, Pool) (Photo by Francois Mori / POOL / AFP)
October 8, 2019, 2:05 pm
After Paris attack, Macron vows ‘unrelenting fight’ against Islamist terror
Paying tribute to four Paris police staff slain by radicalized colleague, French leader speaks of need to eradicate distorted version of Islam
By Agencies
A policeman stands guard on January 21, 2015, in front the Hyper Cacher kosher supermarket where jihadist gunman Amedy Coulibaly killed four Jewish men on January 9, 2015 in Paris. (AFP/Eric Feferberg)
June 7, 2019, 4:36 pm
Suspects in Charlie Hebdo, Hyper Cacher terror attacks to go on trial in France
14 people are accused of providing the three Jihadist gunmen, who were killed by Paris police, logistical support and weapons; trial to begin next year
By AFP and ToI Staff
A court sketch made on January 10, 2019, shows Mehdi Nemmouche, accused of the terrorist attack at the Jewish Museum in Brussels in 2014, during his trial at the Brussels Justice Palace. (Benoit Peyrucq/AFP)
March 7, 2019, 11:33 pm
A criminal since childhood, Belgium Jewish museum killer was radicalized in jail
Mehdi Nemmouche, found guilty in terror murders of 4 people in 2014, is described as ‘sadistic, playful and narcissistic’
By Matthieu Demeestere
Security forces and emergency personnel carry an injured person on a stretcher at the Penitentiary center of Alencon, in Conde-sur-Sarthe, northwestern France, on March 5, 2019, where elite police units have been dispatched after a detainee seriously wounded two guards in a knife attack that justice officials said was being investigated as a terror incident. (Photo by JEAN-FRANCOIS MONIER / AFP)
March 6, 2019, 9:22 am
‘Radicalized’ inmate stabs guards in French jail; his pregnant partner shot dead
Michael Chiolo, jailed for killing Dachau survivor, said to have been seeking to avenge slain terrorist using knife smuggled by visiting female companion, who is killed
By AFP and ToI Staff
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
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