Sources: AP
The Islamic State's West Africa Province claims responsibility for last month's attack in Kouré, Niger, which resulted in the death of six French aid workers and two Nigerian citizens. 2020-09-17
France's defense ministry reports its first armed drone strike. On Saturday, a Reaper drone strike killed seven in central Mali. 2019-12-23
Two additional bodies are found in the rubble of the two buildings that collapsed four days ago in Marseille, France, bringing the final death toll to eight. 2018-11-9
Rwanda steps up pressure on France to admit alleged complicity in the 1994 genocide by publishing a report by law firm "Cunningham Levy Muse". 2017-12-12
A shooting at a school in Grasse, France, injures at least eight people. Authorities arrest a 17-year-old student. 2017-03-16
French authorities give up to 1000 migrants, mostly Syrians and Iraqis, until 8 p.m. local time on 23 February to leave the Calais jungle camp. Those who refuse to leave will be forcibly removed by police. 2016-02-20
Around 200 migrants storm the French port of Calais, near the Channel Tunnel to Britain, after a demonstration in support of migrants living in the nearby Calais jungle camp, with approximately 50 of them boarding the P&O Ferries operated MS "Spirit of Britain" cross-border ferry. The port was closed following the incident. 2016-01-23
At least one person is killed after a group of armed men took people hostage in the northern French town of Roubaix near the Belgian border. The hostages are thought to be a bank director and his family. French police say the incident may be related to a robbery and not to the November 2015 attacks in Paris. 2015-11-24
France announces that it plans to intervene in the conflict in the Central African Republic. 2013-11-26
According to a new Wikileaks document, U.S. ambassador to France, Craig Stapleton, asked Washington to penalize nations, including France, who do not support genetically modified crops.2011-01-3