https://feeds.thelocal.com/ Read the latest news and views from France in English en-us news@thelocal.com (TheLocal) webmaster@thelocal.com (TheLocal) TheLocal RSS Feed A Frenchman has been sentenced to 22 years in prison for seeking to recruit dozens of youths to fight as jihadists in Syria and for leading a brigade of French-speaking Islamists in the war-torn country. https://www.thelocal.fr/20200125/frenchman-jailed-for-22-years-for-terror-recruiting Sat, 25 Jan 2020 17:09:56 +0100 frenchman-jailed-for-22-years-for-terror-recruiting Twelve orphans of French jihadists were flown to France on Monday from Syria, the French foreign ministry confirmed. https://www.thelocal.fr/20190610/france-flies-home-12-children-of-syria-jihadists Mon, 10 Jun 2019 15:41:07 +0200 france-flies-home-12-children-of-syria-jihadists An Iraqi court on Sunday sentenced three French citizens to death after they were found guilty of joining the Islamic State group, a court official said. https://www.thelocal.fr/20190526/three-french-isis-members-sentenced-to-death-in-iraq Sun, 26 May 2019 15:35:31 +0200 three-french-isis-members-sentenced-to-death-in-iraq President Emmanuel Macron said Saturday that the fall of the last bastion held by Islamic State (Isis) jihadists in Syria removed a source of potential terror attacks against France by fighters based in the so-called "caliphate". https://www.thelocal.fr/20190323/macron-says-isis-defeat-removes-significant-threat-to-france Sat, 23 Mar 2019 14:10:22 +0100 macron-says-isis-defeat-removes-significant-threat-to-france Clutching her young son, a Frenchwoman was among those fleeing the last holdout of Islamic State group jihadists. But she told waiting aid workers that her husband, dubbed 'a death machine' by French prosecutors, has vanished. https://www.thelocal.fr/20190223/french-isis-bride-recalls-islamic-state-chaos Sat, 23 Feb 2019 10:40:27 +0100 french-isis-bride-recalls-islamic-state-chaos Yazidi women who survived rape and slavery at the hands of the Islamic State group in Iraq and Syria have applied to join in a court case against French multinational cement giant Lafarge, accused of paying millions to jihadist groups including Islamic State (Isis), the women's lawyers said Friday. https://www.thelocal.fr/20181201/yazidi-women-want-to-join-court-case-against-french-cement-giant Sat, 01 Dec 2018 10:45:19 +0100 yazidi-women-want-to-join-court-case-against-french-cement-giant An Iraqi refugee in France thought to be a former senior member of the Islamic State group has been arrested in Paris and indicted on suspicion of war crimes over his alleged involvement in a massacre in his country. https://www.thelocal.fr/20180608/paris-refugee-believed-to-be-senior-isis-member-held-by-french-police Fri, 08 Jun 2018 10:46:43 +0200 paris-refugee-believed-to-be-senior-isis-member-held-by-french-police Arab and Kurdish fighters were advancing on Sunday against the Islamic State group in eastern Syria thanks to close artillery support from allied American and French forces, a monitor said. https://www.thelocal.fr/20180520/french-us-fire-backs-advance-against-isis-in-east-syria-monitor Sun, 20 May 2018 17:11:25 +0200 french-us-fire-backs-advance-against-isis-in-east-syria-monitor France on Friday charged terror suspect Mohamed Bakkali over his alleged key role in the 2015 Paris attacks, a judicial source said. https://www.thelocal.fr/20180127/france-charges-key-suspect-bakkali-over-paris-attacks Sat, 27 Jan 2018 09:27:42 +0100 france-charges-key-suspect-bakkali-over-paris-attacks French Defence Minister Florence Parly on Sunday pressed Turkey to stop its offensive against Kurdish militia fighting in Syria, saying the fighters were a key ally against terrorism in the war-torn country. https://www.thelocal.fr/20180121/france-urges-end-to-turkish-offensive-against-syrian-kurdish-militia Sun, 21 Jan 2018 15:11:59 +0100 france-urges-end-to-turkish-offensive-against-syrian-kurdish-militia French authorities on Saturday charged a 33-year-old man, who had pledged allegiance to the Islamic State in a video, with planning a terror attack, judicial sources said. https://www.thelocal.fr/20180121/man-charged-in-france-for-planning-terror-attack-sources Sun, 21 Jan 2018 05:51:13 +0100 man-charged-in-france-for-planning-terror-attack-sources The French government says it has no intention to repatriate the daughter of a French policeman from Brittany, who became a notorious jihadist recruiter before being captured in Syria. She will be tried in Syria, the government says. https://www.thelocal.fr/20180104/france-refuses-to-repatriate-brittanys-notorious-female-jihadist Thu, 04 Jan 2018 11:55:50 +0100 france-refuses-to-repatriate-brittanys-notorious-female-jihadist French and Algerian fighters, some arriving from Syria, have joined the ranks of the Islamic State group in northern Afghanistan where the militants have established new bases, multiple international and Afghan sources have told AFP. https://www.thelocal.fr/20171210/french-fighters-appear-with-islamic-state-in-afghanistan Sun, 10 Dec 2017 10:28:54 +0100 french-fighters-appear-with-islamic-state-in-afghanistan Two senior executives at French-Swiss cement maker LafargeHolcim, including its former CEO, were charged on Friday over claims that top management turned a blind eye to payments to jihadists in Syria, a judicial source said. https://www.thelocal.fr/20171209/switzerland-france-lafarge-bosses-in-french-court-over-jihadist-funding Sat, 09 Dec 2017 10:31:28 +0100 switzerland-france-lafarge-bosses-in-french-court-over-jihadist-funding The Swiss-French cement company LafargeHolcim should have stopped its operations in war-torn Syria before it did, its chairman said in an interview published Sunday, after three executives were charged with indirectly financing jihadists. https://www.thelocal.fr/20171204/lafarge-chairman-says-company-made-unacceptable-errors-after-top-officials-charged-with-financing-jihadists Mon, 04 Dec 2017 10:23:13 +0100 lafarge-chairman-says-company-made-unacceptable-errors-after-top-officials-charged-with-financing-jihadists Three top officials of Swiss-French cement-maker Lafarge were charged on Friday with indirectly financing jihadists through the company's activities in war-torn Syria, one of their lawyers and judicial sources said. https://www.thelocal.fr/20171202/top-officials-french-swiss-cement-maker-financing-jihadists-lafarge Sat, 02 Dec 2017 05:34:30 +0100 top-officials-french-swiss-cement-maker-financing-jihadists-lafarge As the Islamic State group's self-proclaimed "caliphate" crumbles under an international military pounding, Europe's governments are grappling with a shared problem: what to do with returning jihadists and their families. https://www.thelocal.fr/20171101/homeward-bound-europe-mulls-fate-of-jihadist-families Wed, 01 Nov 2017 13:37:09 +0100 homeward-bound-europe-mulls-fate-of-jihadist-families Belgium on Tuesday charged two men over the 2015 attack on a high-speed train bound for Paris in which an Islamic State group extremist shot and seriously wounded a passenger before being overpowered. https://www.thelocal.fr/20171101/belgium-charges-two-over-2015-thalys-train-attack Wed, 01 Nov 2017 10:31:43 +0100 belgium-charges-two-over-2015-thalys-train-attack France is to grant a €420 million loan to Iraq whose economy has been weakened by low oil prices and its fight against jihadists, a French foreign ministry official announced on Saturday. https://www.thelocal.fr/20170826/france-to-loan-430-million-to-iraq-ministry Sat, 26 Aug 2017 18:23:51 +0200 france-to-loan-430-million-to-iraq-ministry The foreign and defence ministers of France are to affirm their country's support in the fight against the Islamic State group during a visit to Baghdad on Saturday. https://www.thelocal.fr/20170826/french-ministers-visit-iraq-in-support-of-isis-fight Sat, 26 Aug 2017 11:17:51 +0200 french-ministers-visit-iraq-in-support-of-isis-fight