Sources: Reuters
Six French aid workers, their driver, and a local guide are shot dead by gunmen in an attack on a group of aid workers in Kouré, Tillabéri, Niger. 2020-08-9
About 130 French citizens who joined the Islamic State are expected to be returned to France by their Kurdish captors to face trial. 2019-01-29
A French air traffic controllers strike causes the cancellation of hundreds of flights throughout Europe. 2015-04-8
Al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb release Serge Lazarevic, a French hostage seized three years ago in Mali. 2014-12-9
Algerian jihadist group Jund al-Khilafah release a video showing French tourist Hervé Gourdel being killed because of French participation in airstrikes against ISIS. 2014-09-24
Two French journalists working for RFI are kidnapped and killed in the town of Kidal in northern Mali. 2013-11-2
French Left wing activist Clement Meric dies after being attacked on Wednesday in Paris shopping district by a group of far-right skinheads. 2013-06-6
The New York Police Department orders an investigation into the death of French academic Richard Descoings who was found nude in his hotel room. 2012-04-3
Two Western journalists are killed in the Syrian city of Homs, American Marie Colvin working for the "Sunday Times" and French photographer Remi Ochlik. 2012-02-22
French newspaper "Le Figaro" reports that Hezbollah has transferred hundreds of missiles from Syria to Lebanon, fearing the fall of the Syrian government in the ongoing Syrian uprising. 2011-06-26