by Michel Abu Najm | Apr 23, 2017 | World
Paris – The French presidential elections got underway on Sunday with voters heading to 67,000 ballot boxes distributed throughout the country in wake of the dark shadow of the terrorist attack that hit Paris on Thursday night. Given the serious threats, the French...
by Asharq Al-Awsat English | Nov 21, 2016 | Middle East, World
French police have broken up a terror ring over the weekend and foiled a planned attack, Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve said on Monday. Seven people of French, Moroccan and Afghan origin and aged from 29 to 37 years, were arrested in all, two in Marseille and...
by Andrew Higgins | Jul 18, 2016 | World
Nice-He lived on the 12th floor of a high rise in a heavily immigrant housing project and was known to his neighbors only as a moody and aggressive oddball. He never went to the local mosque, often grunted in response to greetings of “bonjour” and sometimes beat his...
by Asharq Al-Awsat English | Jun 14, 2016 | World
A suspected extremist with a past terrorist conviction stabbed a French police commander to death outside his home and later killed his partner in an attack claimed by ISIS and denounced by the government as “an abject act of terrorism.” The attacker, a...
by Mina Al-Droubi | Feb 9, 2016 | World
London- British Prime Minister, David Cameron said it was “perfectly feasible” that France would end existing border arrangements with Britain, leading to “thousands of asylum-seekers pitching up in southeast England if the country votes to leave the...
