Prosecutors in Paris have opened an inquiry into a video attributed to the Islamic State (Isis) group showing two children, presented as being French, and suggesting they took part in the killing of Syrian prisoners, a judicial source said on Monday.
France will create centres in each region of the country to de-radicalize people or prevent them becoming involved in jihadist groups, the prime minister said Monday as he laid out new anti-terror measures.
Salah Abdeslam, the key Paris attacks suspect who was transferred to France on Wednesday, showed little sign of religious fervour before the bloodshed and was known to enjoy a beer and a joint.
A Brussels-based terror cell intended to launch a fresh strike in France, but attacked in the Belgian capital instead after being “surprised” by a quick-moving investigation, Belgian prosecutors said Sunday.
Paris attacks suspect Mohamed Abrini confessed to being "the man in the hat" caught on video with suicide bombers at Brussels airport last month, images that had sparked a massive manhunt.
The arrest of Paris attacks suspect Mohamed Abrini in raids linked to the Brussels airport and metro bombings on Saturday highlighted the ties between jihadists involved in Belgium and France's worst terror outrages.
Two teenage girls have been charged in France with allegedly plotting to assault a Paris concert hall some four months after the nation's deadliest terror attacks, legal sources said on Saturday.
A trove of leaked Islamic State group documents features the names of the three jihadists who carried out the assault on the Bataclan theatre during November's terror attacks in Paris, German media reported on Friday.
French special forces and intelligence services are operating secret missions in Libya to take out Isis leaders, French newspaper Le Monde has claimed, but the government doesn't want us to know.
Islamic State fighters hiding among refugees travelling from Libya to Italy pose a "major risk" to Europe, French Defence Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian said Sunday.
The Islamic State group released a video on Sunday purporting to show nine jihadists behind the November Paris attacks
that killed 130 people, in which they threaten "coalition" countries including Britain.
Seven young men from eastern France, including the brother of one of the jihadists behind the deadly Paris attacks, will face trial for going to Syria to fight in 2013, a judicial source told AFP on Friday.
A French national, who is known as an Isis executioner and has trained French citizens to become killers, has been sentenced for 15 years, albeit in absentia.
French warplanes bombed Islamic State group oil installations close to its Syrian stronghold of Raqqa on Friday, as France's defence minister visited the Jordanian air base where the jets took off.
The three teams who carried out attacks in Paris and Saint-Denis on November 13th were co-ordinated from Belgium by at least one person, investigations show.
German supermarket chain Aldi Süd weathered criticism Tuesday for offering a New Year's Eve fireworks set called "Paris", six weeks after the deadly jihadist attacks in the French capital.
Russia and France have agreed to bolster efforts to share intelligence relating to the Islamic State jihadist group after the two countries vowed to cooperate militarily on the issue.
UPDATED: The parents of US reporter James Foley, who was beheaded by Isis, have expressed their outrage after French far-right leader Marine Le Pen tweeted a "shamefully uncensored" image of his decapitated body. Le Pen later withdrew the pic.
Furious French far-right leader Marine Le Pen could be in trouble with the law after tweeting a graphic propaganda image of an Isis beheading in response to a TV journalist who likened her National Front party to the jihadist group.
Two people believed to be linked to the terror cell which carried out the Paris attacks have been arrested at a refugee centre in the Austrian city of Salzburg.
A nursery school teacher has been suspended after he invented a story about being stabbed by an Isis supporter on Monday. There has been speculation the man may have been trying to get out of a school inspection.
UPDATED: A nursery school teacher claimed he was attacked in the northern suburbs of Paris by a man shouting about terror group Isis. It comes after Isis had called on followers to attack French teachers. The teacher later admitted to making up the story.
