Tag Archives: France

Police arrested 12 people, including four women, in the Paris area who are suspected of links to last week’s terrorist attacks in Paris. A bomb threat caused an hourlong evacuation of the Gare de l’Est train station in Paris. A heavily armed man took hostages at a post office in Colombes, just west of Paris, […]

The head of cyberdefense for the French military warned that since last week’s terrorist attacks in Paris, cyberattacks have been launched against some 19,000 French websites; known Islamist hacker groups carried out a number of the attacks. French and Spanish authorities are looking into possible links between jihadists in Madrid and the terrorists who attacked […]

Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula claimed the Jan. 7 attack by Cherif and Said Kaouchi on the satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo in Paris, and said an attack by Amedy Coulibaly the same day on a Jewish market in Paris “coincided” with the AQAP attack. The print run for the “survivor” issue of Charlie Hebdo […]

Prime Minister Valls told Parliament that the country is at war with “terrorism, jihadism and radicalism” but emphasized that “France is not at war against Islam and Muslims.” The forthcoming issue of the satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo, targeted by Islamic extremists in a deadly attack last week, will feature a cartoon of the Prophet Mohammed […]

Officials are continuing to search for accomplices of the terrorists who attacked Charlie Hebdo magazine and a kosher supermarket in Paris, including Hayat Boumeddiene, 26; Turkish officials said she entered Syria from Turkey on Jan. 8. Officials said up to six members of the eight or 10-person terrorist cell may be at large. Controversial French […]

Authorities are searching for more information on jihadist plots, after this week’s terrorist attacks in Paris and the disclosure that surveillance had been lifted on two of the attackers just months ago. Over a million people, including a number of world leaders, marched in Paris to protest terrorism and attacks on free speech. A video […]

French security forces remain on high alert following this week’s terrorist attacks in Paris. Authorities are searching for Hayat Boumedienne, the girlfriend of slain suspect Ahmedy Coulibaly. Some reports suggested she had gone to Turkey earlier this month and may now be in Syria. Prime Minister Valls said France is engaged in “a war against […]