A French court has handed a three-month suspended jail sentence to a teenager who named his domestic wifi network 'Daesh21' after the Islamic State terror group.
French fighter jets took off from the aircraft carrier Charles de Gaulle on Friday for an operation against the Islamic State group in its Iraqi stronghold of Mosul, an officer said.
Women who have joined Islamic State group fighters in Syria are facing closer scrutiny when they return to France as the potential danger they represent was underestimated, the country's top prosecutor said
Friday.
French President Francois Hollande will meet Pope Francis at the Vatican on Wednesday to discuss the aftermath of the jihadist murder of a French priest, Hollande's office said on Monday.
Muslims attended Catholic mass in churches around France on Sunday in solidarity and sorrow following the brutal jihadist murder of a priest, the latest in a string of attacks.
Muslim and Christian groups will hold vigils on Saturday for a French priest murdered by extremists in his church, as police charged a man in connection with the brutal attack that has plunged the nation into mourning again.
One of the jihadists who murdered an elderly French priest smiled as he carried out the attack, and nuns who witnessed the grisly murder said the killers spoke about the Koran.
After a young Marseille Muslim took issue with Isis threatening his city by posting a foul-mouthed video tirade that went viral, the terror group felt the need to respond.
French President Francois Hollande on Friday defended his government from accusations it relaxed its anti-terror defences after the Euro championships, and announced plans to arm the fight against the Islamic State group which claimed the Nice attack.
When French political leaders talk of "war" and "a battle against radical Islam" after the Nice truck killings they are simply playing into the hands of Isis, argues French sociologist and Islam expert Raphael Liogier.
Mohamed Lahouaiej-Bouhlel was a petty criminal with a penchant for boozing, bodybuilding and trying to pick up women who showed no signs of radicalisation until recently, according to neighbours and family.
The Bastille Day assault killed 84 people of all ages — including 10 children — who had been out enjoying a fireworks display on a warm summer evening. The dead came from at least 12 countries.
French authorities have arrested two more suspects allegedly linked to the man who rammed a truck into crowds, killing 84 people in Nice, as investigators sought to determine whether he acted alone.
French film distributor Studiocanal has asked cinemas to pull the thriller "Bastille Day", about a planned attack on the eve of France's national holiday, after the real-life truck attack in Nice.
French investigators arrested two more people on Sunday as they pieced together details about the motives and preparations of the Tunisian who rammed a truck into a crowd in an Isis-claimed attack that killed 84.
Five children were still fighting for their lives after the truck attack in Nice, including an unidentified eight-year-old boy who may be a missing Romanian national, officials said Saturday.
According to French media, the Islamic State (Isis) terrorist organisation has claimed responsibility for Thursday's Bastille Day attack which killed 84 people in Nice.
The last surviving member of the jihadist team that attacked Paris, Salah Abdeslam, refused to answer questions in his first interview with a French anti-terror judge on Friday.
The head of France's internal intelligence agency has warned that the country is "clearly targeted" by the Islamic State group which could launch a "terrorist campaign" of bombings in places where big crowds gather.
