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A group of alleged ISIL sympathisers go on trial in France, including two women accused of an attempted car bombing at Notre-Dame Cathedral in 2016. Defendants also include a man being tried "in absentia" whom the United States claims to have killed via drone strike in 2017; the court ruled no evidence had been provided to confirm his death.
2019-09-23

A French nun is found decapitated in a village in the Central African Republic.
2019-05-22

Militants disguised as United Nations troops attack two military bases near Timbuktu, Mali, using rockets and two car bombs. At least one soldier at the bases, used by France and the UN, is killed and more than twelve others are wounded.
2018-04-15

French President François Hollande promises to investigate claims that French Army soldiers were involved in sexual child abuse in the Central African Republic.
2015-05-1

World leaders travel to Normandy in France to commemorate the 70th anniversary of D-Day, the first day of the Western Allies Invasion of Normandy during World War II.
2014-06-6

Russia and China have blocked a proposal by the United States and France to impose U.N. sanctions on Central African Republic's former President François Bozizé and two other people linked to the conflict.
2014-04-23

France announces it will increase the number of its soldiers deployed in the Central African Republic as sectarian violence worsens.
2014-02-14

France announces that it plans to intervene in the conflict in the Central African Republic.
2013-11-26

A French sailor who had spent three days adrift in a life raft in the Southern Ocean off the coast of Tasmania in Australia is rescued by the cruise ship MV "Orion".
2013-01-20