Mohamed Merah

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...

PARIS, April 25 (Reuters) - The terrorism threat in Europe remains elevated, with a quarter more attacks in the European Union in 2012 than in the previous year, pan-European police force Europol said on Thursday. The annual terrorism report published by...

PARIS (Reuters) - The brother of an al Qaeda-inspired gunman shot dead by French police was placed under investigation on Sunday for suspected complicity in a killing spree that has made security a central election issue, with President Nicolas Sarkozy...

TOULOUSE, France -- A video apparently showing a Muslim gunman's attacks on soldiers and a Jewish school was sent to the Al-Jazeera news network, but not by the alleged killer, French police said Tuesday. Al-Jazeera on Tuesday decided not to air a...

All Wednesday, hundreds of Special Police surrounded an apartment building in Southwest France, where Police have cornered a suspected gunman, wanted for an Al-Qaida linked terror spree. A former Alaskan family has a front seat to this standoff. Police...

Army Sgt. Robert Bales to be charged with 17 counts of murder in massacre of Afghan villagers WASHINGTON (AP)— Army Staff Sgt. Robert Bales is expected to be told he faces 17 counts of murder and six counts of attempted murder, along with other...

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....