France has carried out its first air strikes in Iraq against positions of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant, joining a US-led operation to defeat the rebel group. In a statement issued on Friday, French President Francois Hollande said the strike destroyed a logistics depot held by ISIL.[…]
French President Francois Hollande has called for a global response to counter the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), saying it posed a security threat the world over as he opened a conference on Iraq, bringing together members of a US-led coalition. “[The threat] is global so the[…]
French President Francois Hollande arrived in Iraq Friday to support the new government, in the first visit by a head of state since rebels overran large parts of the country three months ago. Hollande’s plane was carrying 15 tonnes of humanitarian aid to be delivered in the Kurdish capital of[…]
A French court has upheld a ban on a Muslim engineer from accessing nuclear sites, citing his links with what it termed as “jihadist networks”, but his lawyer called it a case of Islamophobia. Lawyer Sefen Guez Guez told AFP news agency on Monday that he was looking at launching[…]
France has said it is ready to welcome Christians fleeing the area of Iraq controlled by Islamic State (IS) fighters, saying it is “outraged” by their persecution. Islamic State fighters seized large swaths of northern Iraq last month, prompting hundreds of Christian families in Mosul to flee a city which[…]
France is to repatriate the bodies of all 118 people who were aboard an Air Algerie plane that crashed in Mali, as it declared an unofficial three-day period of mourning. “When it will be possible, all bodies will be brought back to France, all the bodies of all the passengers[…]
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