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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 368

French military

The French Languedoc (D653), a FREMM multipurpose frigate, performs maneuvers during the "Noble Dina 23" multilateral aeronautical exercise in the Mediterranean Dea on March 27, 2023. (Jack Guez/AFP)
December 10, 2023, 6:48 am
French naval ship in Red Sea intercepts 2 drones launched from Houthi-held Yemen port
France’s military says the UAVs were headed ‘straight toward’ the frigate Languedoc; incident comes after Iran-backed rebels threatened to attack all vessels heading to Israel
By AFP and ToI Staff
French Rafale fighter jets fly alongside an IAF F-16i aircraft over the Mediterranean Sea during a drill, December 6, 2022. (Israel Defense Forces)
December 6, 2022, 8:30 pm
IAF, French fighter jets hold joint strike drills over Israel’s skies
During ‘Eastern Breeze’ exercise, Israeli F-16s fly alongside French Rafales, which took off from aircraft carrier in the Mediterranean
By Emanuel Fabian
People walk on the tarmac as they disembark from a Airbus A400M military transport aircraft at the French military air base 104 of Al Dhafra, near Abu Dhabi, on August 23, 2021, after being evacuated from Kabul (BERTRAND GUAY / AFP)
August 28, 2021, 8:53 am
UK, France end Afghan evacuation efforts, but many who wish to flee left behind
As US withdrawal deadline nears and terror threats grow at Kabul airport, countries wrap up their efforts to fly refugees out of the country
By Agencies
Israeli F-16 and French Dassault Rafale fighter jets fly together as part of a joint air exercise in February 2020. (Israel Defense Forces)
February 13, 2020, 8:02 am
IAF pilots practice their dog fighting, and English, in war games with French
Drill over southern Israel features simulated three-on-three combat, with Israeli pilots in F-16s and the French flying Dassault Rafales from aircraft carrier off Israeli coast
By Judah Ari Gross
This file photo taken on July 14, 2017, shows French Chief of Staff General Pierre de Villiers during the annual Bastille Day military parade on the Champs-Elysees in Paris. (AFP Photo/Pool/Etienne Laurent)
July 19, 2017, 11:43 am
French military chief quits after rebuke by Macron
In light of proposed defense cuts, Pierre de Villiers says he can no longer properly carry out role
By AFP
RAID police unit officers secure the area at the Paris' Orly airport on March 18, 2017 following the shooting of a man by French security forces. (AFP/Benjamin Cremel)
March 18, 2017, 4:55 pm
Paris airport suspect previously investigated for Islamic extremism
Man shot dead trying to grab soldier’s weapon was ‘known to the police and intelligence services,’ minister says
By Agencies and ToI Staff
Travelers wait after being evacuated from Paris' Orly airport on March 18, 2017 following the shooting of a man by French security forces. Security forces shot dead a man who took a weapon from a soldier. Witnesses said the airport was evacuated following the shooting. (AFP PHOTO / Benjamin CREMEL)
March 18, 2017, 10:34 am
Attack thwarted at Paris airport as man shot dead after grabbing soldier’s gun
No other casualties, but thousands evacuated at Orly; assailant earlier shot a cop elsewhere in city, and was reportedly a ‘radical Muslim’ known to authorities
By Agencies and ToI Staff
An Israeli Air Force Avia S-199 of the 101st squadron in June 1948. (Wikipedia/Public Domain)
July 20, 2016, 3:54 pm
US air force vet who smuggled plane to fledgling Israel dies at 92
Nathan ‘Gino’ Narboni flew for three countries and fought in 1948 War of Independence
By JTA
Illustrative photo of an Airbus A320 belonging to EgyptAir taking off from Vienna International Airport, Austria, on August 21, 2015 (AP Photo/Thomas Ranner)
June 1, 2016, 3:17 pm
Egypt: Signals detected from doomed plane’s black boxes
French navy picks up locator pings from search area for EgyptAir plane that crashed over Mediterranean with 66 aboard
By MAGGIE MICHAEL
The French navy's Lapérouse class hydrographic survey vessel Borda, one of France's three Lapérouse class vessels. The other two are the Lapérouse and the Laplace. (Wikipedia/Marine nationale/CC BY-SA 3.0)
May 27, 2016, 3:16 am
France sending search ship to find EgyptAir black box
Investigation into crash that killed 66 continues; Laplace vessel’s detectors designed to find underwater flight recorders
By AP
US Navy Lt. JG Dylon Porlas uses binoculars to look through the window of a US Navy Lockheed P-3C Orion patrol aircraft from Sigonella, Sicily on May 22, 2016, as part of the search for EgyptAir flight 804 that went missing on May 19. (AP Photo/Salvatore Cavalli)
May 23, 2016, 11:58 pm
Investigators search for answers amid wreckage of EgyptAir plane
Authorities, aviation experts say erratic path in flight 804’s final moments suggests a bomb blast or struggle in the cockpit
By AP
This undated image made from a video released by Islamic State militants on April 19, 2015, appears to show the killing of a group of captured Ethiopian Christians in Libya. (Militant video via AP)
January 21, 2016, 2:27 am
West ignoring grave threat from IS in Libya, Israeli terror experts warn
Libya is the only place outside Iraq and Syria where the jihadi group controls territory, but US and Europe have no strategy there, researchers say
By Raphael Ahren
Burkinabe soldiers carry the body of a man in the surroundings of the Splendid Hotel during an attack on both the hotel and a restaurant by al-Qaeda linked gunmen early on January 16, 2016. (AFP/AHMED OUOBA)
January 16, 2016, 10:49 am
Burkina Faso hotel siege ends as troops storm site; 20 dead
Minister says 126 people freed, 3 jihadi gunmen killed after operation by local and French forces
By Agencies
French first responders tend to wounded people in the surrounding of the Hotel Splendide and the Café Cappuccino during the attack on January 15, 2016. (AFP PHOTO/NABILA EL HADAD)
January 16, 2016, 9:10 am
Local, French troops battle al-Qaeda in Burkina Faso hotel siege
At least 10 bodies recovered from adjacent cafe, while officials say 20 confirmed dead; Hollande slams ‘cowardly’ attack
By Agencies
A French flag flies above French naval technicians working on the flight deck of the aircraft carrier Charles de Gaulle at a military port in the southern French city of Toulon, on November 18, 2015, before leaving in Eastern Mediterranean Sea. (AFP PHOTO / ANNE-CHRISTINE POUJOULAT)
November 18, 2015, 11:25 pm
French aircraft carrier in eastern Mediterranean ‘by end of week’
Minister says the Charles de Gaulle deployed to boost military campaign against the Islamic State group in Syria
By AFP and ToI Staff
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