Sources: BBC
France hands over its first base in Chad, at Faya-Largeau, as part of the withdrawal of all its military forces from the country. 2024-12-26
A teacher is killed and another teacher and a security guard are seriously injured in a stabbing attack at a high school in Arras, Hauts-de-France, France. The Chechen attacker is arrested by police. 2023-10-13
French President Emmanuel Macron announces that France will end its military presence in Niger and will remove its ambassador from the country following a deterioration in relations. 2023-09-24
A court in Paris, France, sentences Lebanese Canadian lecturer and professor Hassan Diab to life in prison over the bombing of a Parisian synagogue in 1980. Diab was tried in absentia and he remains in Canada under the request of arrest and extradition from French authorities. 2023-04-21
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
French President Emmanuel Macron announces that France will send radar and air defense systems to Ukraine "in the coming weeks". 2022-10-12
Mali accuses its former ally France of arming jihadist terrorist groups in order to destabilize the country. Malian Foreign Minister Abdoulaye Diop tells the United Nations that French aircraft are violating the country's airspace and dropping "arms and ammunition" to terrorist groups on the ground. France denies the accusations. 2022-08-18
For the first time since World War II, German troops are stationed in France. 2010-12-10
Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak cancels an official two-day trip to France at short notice, while several French members of the flotilla and three MPs plan to file a lawsuit against him in France and at the International Criminal Court in The Hague. 2010-06-13