by James McAuley | Jul 25, 2017 | World
PARIS — What happened to Sarah Halimi resembles the plot of a horror film. In the early hours of April 4, the 65-year-old retired doctor and schoolteacher, an Orthodox Jew, was asleep in the modest apartment in northeastern Paris where she lived alone. Shortly after 4...
by James McAuley | Dec 17, 2016 | World
PARIS — The main suspect in the August 2015 attack on a high-speed train in northern France was under orders from the same ISIS terrorist cell that orchestrated the Paris attacks in November 2015, his lawyer said Thursday. Ayoub El Khazzani, 26, a Moroccan citizen who...
by James McAuley | Sep 8, 2016 | World
BORDEAUX, France — Tareq Oubrou is the leader of the Muslim community in a city famous for the earthy red wines that have made this region a household name — and that his followers are forbidden from sampling. But after three major terrorist attacks in two years and...
by James McAuley | Jun 7, 2016 | World
Paris-They are known as “Operation Sentinel,” the imposing soldiers in camouflage uniforms who patrol beneath the Eiffel Tower and outside the Louvre with FAMAS assault rifles. Together, they form a massive security operation of some 10,000 French soldiers deployed...
