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 France said on Sunday it "will intervene" in cases of its nationals sentenced to death in Iraq and Syria for belonging to jihadist organisations. https://www.thelocal.fr/20180128/france-to-intervene-if-nationals-sentenced-to-death-in-mideast Sun, 28 Jan 2018 20:36:26 +0100 france-to-intervene-if-nationals-sentenced-to-death-in-mideast DNA test results have confirmed that a jihadist, described as France's most wanted terrorist after inspiring several terror attacks on French soil, has been killed in a drone strike in Iraq, according to media reports on Wednesday. https://www.thelocal.fr/20170215/death-of-most-wanted-french-jihadist-confirmed-by-dna-tests Wed, 15 Feb 2017 15:07:31 +0100 death-of-most-wanted-french-jihadist-confirmed-by-dna-tests Police say that they recovered a stash of jihadist money that was hidden in the famous Paris Montparnassee cemetery. https://www.thelocal.fr/20170124/are-jihadists-stashing-thousands-of-euros-in-paris-cemetery Tue, 24 Jan 2017 18:09:27 +0100 are-jihadists-stashing-thousands-of-euros-in-paris-cemetery A teachers union in France claims school examiners were ordered to flag up any references in this year's baccalauréat tests that could suggest pupils have been radicalized. https://www.thelocal.fr/20160706/french-school-examiners-ordered-to-flag-up-jihadist-words Wed, 06 Jul 2016 19:09:15 +0200 french-school-examiners-ordered-to-flag-up-jihadist-words Three men with links to a French jihadist who killed a police officer and his partner have been arrested for reportedly carrying out surveillance on other officers. https://www.thelocal.fr/20160621/three-held-for-keeping-surveillance-on-french-police Tue, 21 Jun 2016 12:32:07 +0200 three-held-for-keeping-surveillance-on-french-police Emilie Koenig, designated as a global terrorist this week by the United States, grew up the daughter of a French gendarme in windswept Brittany before her metamorphosis into a radical Islamist. https://www.thelocal.fr/20150930/french-woman-jihadist-isis-syria Wed, 30 Sep 2015 17:50:59 +0200 french-woman-jihadist-isis-syria France's first air strike on the Islamic State group in Syria killed at least 30 jihadists, including 12 child soldiers, a monitoring group said on Wednesday. https://www.thelocal.fr/20150930/first-french-strike-in-syria-killed-30-jihadists Wed, 30 Sep 2015 12:14:15 +0200 first-french-strike-in-syria-killed-30-jihadists French warplanes will launch air strikes against Isis targets in Syria in the coming weeks, the government announced on Wednesday, just days after President François Hollande said the intervention was "necessary". https://www.thelocal.fr/20150916/france-to-hit-isis-in-syria-in-coming-weeks Wed, 16 Sep 2015 10:15:01 +0200 france-to-hit-isis-in-syria-in-coming-weeks France's scramble to confirm the reported killing in Syria of a key Islamic State recruiter shows the headache authorities face in pinning down evidence of jihadists' deaths, which may be fabricated for strategic reasons, experts say. https://www.thelocal.fr/20150811/french-experts-struggle-to-confirm-jihadists-deaths Tue, 11 Aug 2015 11:14:50 +0200 french-experts-struggle-to-confirm-jihadists-deaths An Algerian jihadist sympathiser arrested in connection with a thwarted attack on a church in France was charged with terror-related murder Friday after five days of police questioning. https://www.thelocal.fr/20150425/thwarted-french-jihadist-faces-terror-charges Sat, 25 Apr 2015 12:14:41 +0200 thwarted-french-jihadist-faces-terror-charges The jihadist cyber-attack against French television channel TV5Monde last week was set in motion in as far back as January, several sources with knowledge of the investigation said on Tuesday. https://www.thelocal.fr/20150414/how-the-french-channel-tv5-was-hacked Tue, 14 Apr 2015 17:07:37 +0200 how-the-french-channel-tv5-was-hacked The "unprecedented" cyber-attack on French television channel TV5Monde represents a major "step up" in the Internet warfare being waged by highly specialized jihadist hackers, experts said on Thursday. https://www.thelocal.fr/20150409/french-tv-hack-a-step-up-in-cyberjihadism-experts Thu, 09 Apr 2015 19:04:16 +0200 french-tv-hack-a-step-up-in-cyberjihadism-experts Forty-seven percent of European jihadists known to have travelled to territory held by the extremist Islamic State group are French, a report by the country's upper house Senate revealed on Wednesday. https://www.thelocal.fr/20150409/nearly-half-of-european-jihadists-in-syria-iraq-are-french-report Thu, 09 Apr 2015 11:53:31 +0200 nearly-half-of-european-jihadists-in-syria-iraq-are-french-report For the past year the French army has been secretly fighting jihadism online through the infiltration of social networks, French media has revealed. https://www.thelocal.fr/20150206/france-facebook-secret-fight-jihadism Fri, 06 Feb 2015 10:17:00 +0100 france-facebook-secret-fight-jihadism The French government has released a shock video campaign in the hope of dissuading young French nationals from heading to the Middle East to fight with Islamic jihadists, by telling them "you'll find hell on earth and you'll die alone, far from home". https://www.thelocal.fr/20150128/france-releases-shock-anti-jihad-video Wed, 28 Jan 2015 12:31:00 +0100 france-releases-shock-anti-jihad-video UPDATED: At least five people have been arrested after an anti-jihadist operation in southern France, which is still ongoing. https://www.thelocal.fr/20150127/two-arrested-in-anti-jihadist-raid-in-france Tue, 27 Jan 2015 11:03:00 +0100 two-arrested-in-anti-jihadist-raid-in-france A young man with a promising future has astonished friends and family by leaving France to join jihadists in Syria. As more Europeans leave for Syria, experts say that most come from poverty and broken homes. https://www.thelocal.fr/20150123/life-in-france-given-up-for-jihad-terror-syria-isis Fri, 23 Jan 2015 18:22:00 +0100 life-in-france-given-up-for-jihad-terror-syria-isis In a landmark ruling France's top court agreed on Friday that it was lawful to strip a binational jihadist of his French nationality after he was convicted of a terrorism offence. https://www.thelocal.fr/20150123/jihadist-french-nationality-court Fri, 23 Jan 2015 11:22:00 +0100 jihadist-french-nationality-court After three days of terrorist shootings that left 17 dead, politicians including the PM have evoked the idea that France is now at war. Here, the editor of French daily Liberation, Laurent Joffrin, argues that talk of war is playing into the hands of terrorists. https://www.thelocal.fr/20150111/france-is-not-at-war Sun, 11 Jan 2015 12:17:00 +0100 france-is-not-at-war