Sources: Al Arabiya
Three people are killed and four injured after a mass shooting at a birthday party in Espinasse-Vozelle, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, France. The perpetrator kills himself. 2024-07-13
The French Senate votes 201–115 to raise the legal retirement age in France from 62 to 64 despite mass strikes against the change. 2023-03-9
The French Minister of the Armed Forces Florence Parly says that AQIM emir Abdelmalek Droukdel, along with members of his inner circle, had been killed in northern Mali on 3 June 2020. She also says that French forces had also captured a senior AQIM commander in an operation in May. 2020-06-5
Femen co-founder and activist Oksana Shachko is found dead in her Paris apartment in an apparent suicide. France granted her political refugee status in 2013. 2018-07-23
2011 Syrian protests: France, Germany, Italy, Spain and the United Kingdom summon Syrian ambassadors to condemn the government's recent violent crackdown on people protesting against the Bashar al-Assad regime. 2011-04-27
The French law banning the burqa and niqab comes into effect. 2011-04-11
Syrian Army troops open fire on protesters in front of the mayor's office in Latakia. 2011-03-30
French jet destroys a Libyan plane that breached the no-fly zone. 2011-03-24
France sends two planeloads of aid to opponents of the Libyan regime in Benghazi. 2011-02-28