If you've been following French news you might have heard of the 'Affaire Mila' - but what exactly happened and what does it say about France's sometimes troubled relationship with Islam?
The French woman at the centre of a new row
over the wearing of an Islamic hijab in public places is taking legal action against the far-right politicians who criticised her, the Collective against Islamophobia in France (CCIF) said on Wednesday.
The UN Human Rights Committee on Tuesday criticised France's so-called burqa ban, saying the law "violated" the rights of two women who were fined for wearing full-face veils in public.
The UN Human Rights Committee is set to rule that France's 2010 law which forbids people from concealing their face in public is 'discriminatory' and 'goes against religious freedom', the French media has revealed.
A new report by a Paris think-tank underlines "the progress of Islamist ideology among Muslims in France", suggesting that Salafi Islam can be stamped out through a “halal tax” and Arabic being taught in French schools.
Right-wing French leaders have condemned as "sacrilege" a decision to allow a provocative Muslim rapper to play the Bataclan concert hall in Paris where jihadists massacred 90 people three years ago.
A French manifesto calling for certain passages of the Koran to be removed on the grounds of rising anti-Semitism sparked anger Monday from Muslims who said their religion was being unfairly "put on trial".
While the role of Islam in French society has long been a divisive and inflammatory topic a new study suggests people in France are now more accepting of the religion.
A French extreme-right journalist, who wants Islam banned in France, believes he may have been the target of a failed bomb attack on an apartment building in a plush district of Paris.
An industrial tribunal on Thursday hears the case of four Muslim former security guards at Orly airport who say they were discriminated against when sacked for refusing to shave off their beards in the wake of the November 2015 terror attacks in Paris.
Most French people say there are too many foreigners in France, immigrants do not make an effort to assimilate and Islam is incompatible with the French values.
French companies have been given the green light to ban staff from wearing the Muslim headscarf and other religious symbols in the workplace in a ruling from the European Court of Justice, which said it does not constitute discrimination.
Far-right French presidential candidate Marine Le Pen sparked controversy on Tuesday when she refused to wear a headscarf to meet with Lebanon's top Sunni Muslim cleric. Or was it all just a publicity stunt on both sides?
A notorious far-right French mayor will be tried on hate charges over comments that include a claim the number of Muslim pupils in his city was a "problem", a judicial source said Wednesday.
A new book titled "A President Should Not Say That..." has revealed that François Hollande calls Nicolas Sarkozy "a Duracell bunny", how his ex-partner was obsessed by another ex-partner, and how he believes a Muslim woman could one day be the symbol of France (if she feels free enough to ditch her hijab).
President Francois Hollande insisted on Thursday that France's strict laws separating church and state did not mean the country's large Muslim minority could not practise their religion.
In another incident revealing how fraught intercommunal relations are on the French island of Corsica two Muslim mothers wearing headscarves were accosted and prevented from entering a nursery school by other parents.
An unregistered Islamic school, where 20 children as young as six were understood to have been "at risk of indoctrination", has been discovered by police concealed in a mosque in the eastern suburbs of Paris.
A law banning the controversial burqini swim wear in France would be "unconstitutional" the French interior minister has warned and would create "irreparable tension".
France's top court are set to decide on Friday whether the burqini ban is legal. But in the 30 towns where the ban is in place, how many fines have actually been issued?
A mayor on the French island of Corsica on Monday became the third nationwide to announce a ban on burqinis, after violent clashes broke out, allegedly sparked by tourists taking pictures of women wearing the full-body swimsuit.
