Al-Qaeda chief in north Africa Abdelmalek Droukdel killed - France

How the US and France are working together to halt al-Qaeda

The world should be paying more attention to the threat from al-Qaeda in sub-Saharan Africa, a former UK military chief warns.

French special forces bomb positions held by Islamist militants in northern Mali, as part of its efforts to combat al-Qaeda in the region.

A French court jails former Rwandan spy chief Pascal Simbikangwa for 25 years for complicity in the 1994 genocide.

LILLE, France – Former International Monetary Fund chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn has been cleared of pimping charges in a French trial that hinged on sex parties that took place in the midst of the global financial crisis.Friday's verdict closes four years of legal drama. Ten others were acquitted as well.

Strauss-Kahn had told the court the parties were much-needed "recreational sessions" and he did not know the women who took part were prostitutes. In often sordid testimony, the women...

IS and al-Qaeda affiliates have already locked horns in other jihadists hotspots.

Somali officials say an intelligence chief from the al-Shabab Islamist group was among those killed by a US air strike on Monday.

A police brigadier-general has been killed in a bomb blast near Cairo university, Egyptian state media say.

France's migrant 'cemetery' in the Indian Ocean