France is seeking to repatriate some of the 150 children of French jihadists identified as being in Syria, as Western nations grapple with how to handle citizens who left to join extremists.
French authorities have confirmed that a suspected jihadist who together with his family allegedly planned a bomb attack in Lyon in 2014 was released from prison by mistake.
President Francois Hollande invoked the spirit of national unity on Saturday as he led tributes to 86 people killed in a jihadist truck attack in Nice on Bastille Day.
Twenty members of a suspected jihadist cell who attacked a Jewish grocery in 2012 and had ties to jihadists in Syria are set to face trial after prosecutors said they had a case to answer.
A Frenchwoman has issued a plea for help to bring home her three-year-old daughter, whom she says was "abducted" by her jihadist husband who has left for Syria.
French lawmakers adopted a draft law Thursday that will require minors to have permission from their parents or legal guardians before leaving the country in a bid to curb departures for jihad in Iraq or Syria.
An aggrieved French mum is demanding the country's government pay her €110,000 in damages for failing to stop her son leaving to fight jihad in the Middle East.
An Islamist group calling themselves the "knights of pride" went on trial in France this week accused of plotting to attack "targets", including Jewish shops in the Paris region.
Alarming figures revealed in France on Tuesday showed exactly why French authorities are taking the fight against online jihadist networks so seriously.
More young women from France are being targeted to join radical Islamist group Isis than their male counterparts, new figures show, with experts suggesting that the shift is a result of gender-targeted propaganda.
An emergency hotline in France for reporting suspected jihadists has seen calls to the number double in January as concerned parents call for advice fearing their children may have been radicalized.
The Islamic State group released a new video calling for its followers to launch fresh attacks on France, just a month after a deadly Islamist assault on a Paris magazine shocked the world.
A Paris court has sentenced three French youths to prison for having attempted to make their way to Yemen and Somalia in 2012 to fight alongside Islamist extremists. It was the first trial of its kind since France last week was hit by a string of deadly terrorist attacks.
In the last 18 months, French intelligence services have prevented as many as five terrorism plots from taking place on French soil, according the country’s interior minister, who warned that jihadists returning from Syria continue to pose the biggest threat.
A French mother is suing the French state, who she blames for the fact her teenage son was able to breeze through border patrol with a simple ID card and go unchallenged about his final destination - the front lines in Syria.
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.
The first French jihadist to stand trial after having returned from fighting in Syria has been sentenced to seven years in prison, despite claiming to have spent just 12 days in the war-torn country.
An investigation has been opened by anti-terror police after reports in France said eleven members of one family including the grandmother and six-month-old baby, have left the country bound for Syria in the hope of joining Isis extremists.
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.
Extremists linked to the Isis Islamist group beheaded a French hostage in a video posted online, carrying out their threat to kill him unless France stopped its air strikes in Iraq within 24 hours.
Confusion reigned Tuesday over the whereabouts of three suspected French jihadists arrested in Turkey who include the brother-in-law of Toulouse killer Mohammed Merah after an apparent bungle by authorities.
