Officials in France claimed on Wednesday that a young boy and man who appeared in the Isis execution video are French citizens. The man is believed to be a relative of Toulouse gunman Mohamed Merah who killed seven people in 2012.
Paris's famed Louvre museum on Friday reacted in shock to the destruction of priceless artefacts by jihadists in Iraq, saying they hit at the heart of "humanity's memory."
The Islamic State jihadist group Isis urged Muslims on Monday to carry out new attacks similar to the Paris shooting at the satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo, where 17 people were killed.
One of three Kalashnikov-wielding Islamists seen burning their French passports in an Islamic State propaganda video this week grew up in a small village in southern France, the mayor said Saturday.
Four entertainers working at a holiday camp for children in north-western France, have been suspended from their posts and reported to police after they photographed themselves re-enacting a jihadist execution.
The French public are becoming increasingly unnerved by the fact youngsters from everyday backgrounds, with names like Maxime, Helene, David and Mikael, are joining the jihad and turning up in brutal Islamic State execution videos.
Around 50 French nationals have been killed in Syria fighting alongside jihadists, the Prime Minister said on Wednesday. France also announced it will deploy six Mirage fighter jets against Isis fighters in Iraq.
France confirmed on Wednesday that a second Frenchman had been identified in the shocking Isis video showing the beheading of Syrian prisoners. A source claimed the man was a 22-year-old from an eastern suburb of Paris.
French prosecutors on Monday confirmed that a French national can be seen among the Isis militants who beheaded at least 18 Syrian soldiers in a gruesome video that appeared online at the weekend and which also claimed the killing of US aid worker Peter Kassig.
The leader of France's armed forces said his country's military "hurt" Isis forces in a recent raid led by the international coalition battling the extremists in Iraq.
France confirmed this week that it will be sending more fighter jets to the Middle East to carry out air strikes against jihadists from Isis who have taken over large swathes of Iraq and Syria.
The man accused by the US State department of carrying out executions for the Islamist extremist group Isis was a "fun-loving" Frenchman who enjoyed smoking weed and going out clubbing, according to this report.
Thousands of people joined a silent march Saturday in the southern French city of Nice in memory of Herve Gourdel, the hiker beheaded last week by Algerian militants linked to the Islamic State group.
Following the beheading of a French hostage, authorities have expanded to 40 countries the list of places where French visitors should use “utmost vigilance”. Some on the list may surprise you.
Outraged by the beheading of a French hostage, French Muslims will gather at Paris's Grand Mosque on Friday in protest of the violence carried out by extremists in the name of religion.
The outrage from the Muslim community and the rest of France has been potent since Islamic militants beheaded a French tourist in Algeria. The Local hit the streets of Paris to get of the sense the mood of a public still in shock.
Isis Islamic extremists on Monday called on Muslims to target the French and citizens of other countries that have joined the US-led coalition to fight the jihadist organization, branding the French “dirty” and “spiteful”. However France's interior minister insists that the country is "not afraid."
France has signed up to the US-led international coalition to fight ISIS jihadis but that has not stopped President Obama from criticising his French counterpart for allegedly paying ransoms for the release of kidnapped French citizens
France's top leaders urged 'swift action' at meeting in Paris on Monday for an international strategy summit on how best to combat the extemist ISIS militants who have seized large swathes of territory and beheaded western aid workers and journalists.
The French air force is flying reconnaisance missions in Iraq as part of the US bombing campaign targeting ISIS militants who have been operating in the war-torn zone between Syria and Iraq.
France has pledged to join in, "if necessary", a bombing campaign against the Islamic extremists who have captured large swathes of Iraq and Syria. The pledge came as US President Barack Obama unveiled a "strategy to degrade and ultimately destroy" the jihadists.
The French press has reported the suspected gunman behind the massacre at a Brussels Jewish museum allegedly bragged he was going to carry out a terror attack in Paris "five times" worse than the bloody killing spree of Mohamed Merah. But prosecutors are denying there's any evidence he said that.
