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 France on Friday charged a man with murder days after his expulsion from Turkey, holding him in custody over crimes alleged to have taken place in jihadist-controlled areas of Iraq and Syria. https://www.thelocal.fr/20201010/france-charges-jihadi-with-murder-in-is-territory Sat, 10 Oct 2020 10:57:25 +0200 france-charges-jihadi-with-murder-in-is-territory A French mother who took her three children to Syria to join the Islamic State jihadist group in 2014 was sentenced to 14 years in jail in Paris on Friday. https://www.thelocal.fr/20191123/french-islamic-state-mother-jailed-for-14-months Sat, 23 Nov 2019 09:40:26 +0100 french-islamic-state-mother-jailed-for-14-months An Algerian suspected of setting off a package bomb in southeast France last week has told investigators that he pledged allegiance to the Islamic State jihadist group, a judicial source said on Thursday. https://www.thelocal.fr/20190530/lyon-bomb-suspect-had-pledged-allegiance-to-islamic-state Thu, 30 May 2019 19:08:41 +0200 lyon-bomb-suspect-had-pledged-allegiance-to-islamic-state 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 An Iraqi court on Monday sentenced a French man and a German woman to life in prison in the latest punishments handed down for belonging to the Islamic State jihadist group. https://www.thelocal.fr/20180806/iraq-sentences-frenchman-to-life-for-is-membership Mon, 06 Aug 2018 16:46:40 +0200 iraq-sentences-frenchman-to-life-for-is-membership 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 A former CEO of French-Swiss cement maker LafargeHolcim said he was made aware of payments to the Islamic State group in August 2014, contradicting an account by another top executive, a source close to the case said on Saturday. https://www.thelocal.fr/20171216/lafarge-ex-ceo-denies-knowing-of-syria-payments-until-late Sat, 16 Dec 2017 17:17:34 +0100 lafarge-ex-ceo-denies-knowing-of-syria-payments-until-late French football federation president Noel Le Graet said he was adopting a "very careful" approach after a photoshopped image of national team coach Didier Deschamps emerged accompanied by threats from Islamic State sympathisers. https://www.thelocal.fr/20171101/french-football-chief-very-careful-over-deschamps-threat Wed, 01 Nov 2017 10:21:08 +0100 french-football-chief-very-careful-over-deschamps-threat A man has been charged over his alleged involvement in the killing of a policeman on Paris's Champs-Elysees after his DNA was found on the gunman's weapon, a judicial source said on Saturday. https://www.thelocal.fr/20170520/man-charged-over-links-to-champs-elysees-gunman Sat, 20 May 2017 14:26:44 +0200 man-charged-over-links-to-champs-elysees-gunman There is "no time to lose" to put in place a unity government in Libya, where the Islamic State group is rapidly expanding its presence, the new French foreign minister said on Saturday. https://www.thelocal.fr/20160213/no-time-to-lose-for-libya-says-french-fm Sat, 13 Feb 2016 20:09:35 +0100 no-time-to-lose-for-libya-says-french-fm French air strikes launched against Islamic State jihadists in Syria on Sunday may win Paris political capital, but are unlikely to yield serious military gains or stop terrorist attacks, analysts say. https://www.thelocal.fr/20150927/french-attacks-on-isis-doomed-to-fail Sun, 27 Sep 2015 19:31:50 +0200 french-attacks-on-isis-doomed-to-fail French anti-terrorist prosecutors on Friday launched an investigation into an Islamic State group video that called for fresh attacks against France, a judicial source said. https://www.thelocal.fr/20150207/french-anti-terrorist-prosecutors-probe-isis-video Sat, 07 Feb 2015 09:21:00 +0100 french-anti-terrorist-prosecutors-probe-isis-video A father-of-three, suspected of bombarding his children with violent images glorifying jihad, has been charged with "inciting acts of terrorism", prosecutors in south-eastern France said on Saturday. https://www.thelocal.fr/20150124/father-charged-with-inciting-his-children-to-jihad Sat, 24 Jan 2015 16:46:00 +0100 father-charged-with-inciting-his-children-to-jihad 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. https://www.thelocal.fr/20141117/frenchman-could-be-among-isis-executioners-in-kassig-video Mon, 17 Nov 2014 11:45:00 +0100 frenchman-could-be-among-isis-executioners-in-kassig-video French fighter jets have carried out a third round of air strikes against Islamic State jihadists in support of Iraqi ground forces, the defence ministry said on Monday. https://www.thelocal.fr/20141020/france-launches-fresh-strikes-against-is-in-iraq Mon, 20 Oct 2014 19:51:05 +0200 france-launches-fresh-strikes-against-is-in-iraq France has said it would boost support to Kurdish fighters battling Islamic State militants, while Germany will send four planes with humanitarian aid to Kurds in northern Iraq on Friday. https://www.thelocal.fr/20140815/france-to-send-aid-to-iraqi-kurds Fri, 15 Aug 2014 11:18:04 +0200 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