Mohamed Merah

Toulouse shooting: The 31-hour standoff between French authorities and Islamic-extremist Mohammed Merah ended with a series of loud explosions and gunfire. According to multiple news sources citing police officials, the commotion was the beginning of a...

Every day on World Now, we choose a striking photo from around the world. Today we were arrested by this shot of a girl waiting to be evacuated from Yemen and taken back to her home country of Ethiopia....

Madonna turned down calls to boycott St. Petersburg after the Russian city passed a law punishing people for promoting homosexuality to youth, saying she would instead use her August concert there to speak out....

Mohamed Merah, who confessed to killing seven people in a string of drive-by shootings in France, was shot in the head Thursday as he jumped from a window, still shooting, at the end of a standoff with police that lasted 32 hours. Though the siege is...

French investigators are trying to establish whether the gunman shot dead after a 32-hour siege was a "lone wolf" or had accomplices in a string of attacks he is suspected of carrying out....

A jihadist group that has claimed responsibility for other attacks in Afghanistan and Kazakhstan said it was behind at least one of the deadly shootings in southwestern France, according to the SITE monitoring group. The gunman believed to be behind the...

Health groups are trying to immunize more than 111 million African children against polio in only four days, hoping to squelch an incurable disease that is all but gone in the West....

A military coup in Mali could jeopardize roughly $100 million in U.S. funding granted to the West African nation granted by the Millennial Challenge Corporation....

The Tuareg are nomadic people in much of the central Sahara and Sahel. They’ve been romanticized as “the blue men of the desert” because of the indigo dye used in their traditional flowing garments. They have a common language, Tamasheq,...

The gunman who confessed to a series of killings of French soldiers and Jewish schoolchildren was laid to rest in France on Thursday, one week after he was killed at the end of a marathon standoff with police. Mohamed Merah, the 23-year-old man believed...

PARIS, May 18 (Reuters) - French anti-terror judges ordered the detention on Saturday of a man on suspicions he aided an al Qaeda-inspired gunman prepare for a shooting spree last year, a judicial source said. Mohamed Merah killed four Jews and three...

* Jihadist recruiting behind bars a worry amid Mali crisis * Overcrowding, intelligence lapses, lack of chaplains weigh * Petty offenders easily lured into radicalism By Alexandria Sage VILLEPINTE, France, May 7 (Reuters) - In France, the path to...