French Jihadist Arrested

A left-wing French politician has been arrested over a tweet apparently celebrating the death of a policeman who was hailed a hero after he took the place of a hostage and was killed by a jihadist gunman.

Turkish police have arrested a French citizen of Turkish origin suspected of helping plan a New Year attack in Istanbul claimed by jihadists, Dogan news agency reported on Tuesday.

French police today arrested eight associates of the jihadist who killed 86 people when he ploughed his truck into a Bastille Day crowd in Nice, an investigation source said.

Three men with links to jihadist Larossi Abballa, who killed a police officer and his partner outside Paris last week, were arrested today for carrying out surveillance on other police officers, sources said.

A French journalist infiltrated a cell of would-be terrorists, filming them with a hidden camera as they plotted an attack in the name of the ISIS group, before they were arrested, he told AFP.

French prosecutors said Tuesday there was a raft of evidence suggesting that the man arrested for last week's train attack carefully prepared a jihadist assault that would have ended in carnage had passengers not intervened.

French prosecutors said on Tuesday there was evidence suggesting that the man arrested for last week's train attack carefully prepared a jihadist assault that would have ended in carnage had passengers not intervened.

An Algerian jihadist sympathiser arrested in connection with a thwarted attack on a church in France was charged with terror-related murder Friday after five days of police questioning.

Moroccan authorities have arrested an Algerian national thought to be a member of Jund al-Khilafa, a jihadist group responsible for the September beheading of a French tourist, authorities said Sunday.

Belgium was on high alert today after two suspected jihadists were killed in a police raid, while German and French police made fresh arrests to put Europe on edge a week after the Islamist attacks in Paris.

French police arrested four people suspected of links with jihadist networks on Monday, three days after detaining a man for last week's deadly attack on a Jewish museum in Brussels.

Three suspected jihadists arrested in the days since the liberation of Timbuktu said Friday that Malian soldiers were torturing them with a method similar to waterboarding.

A left-wing French politician has been arrested over a tweet apparently celebrating the death of a policeman who was hailed a hero after he took the place of a hostage and was killed by a jihadist gunman.

Turkish police have arrested a French citizen of Turkish origin suspected of helping plan a New Year attack in Istanbul claimed by jihadists, Dogan news agency reported on Tuesday.

French police today arrested eight associates of the jihadist who killed 86 people when he ploughed his truck into a Bastille Day crowd in Nice, an investigation source said.

Three men with links to jihadist Larossi Abballa, who killed a police officer and his partner outside Paris last week, were arrested today for carrying out surveillance on other police officers, sources said.

A French journalist infiltrated a cell of would-be terrorists, filming them with a hidden camera as they plotted an attack in the name of the ISIS group, before they were arrested, he told AFP.

French prosecutors said Tuesday there was a raft of evidence suggesting that the man arrested for last week's train attack carefully prepared a jihadist assault that would have ended in carnage had passengers not intervened.

French prosecutors said on Tuesday there was evidence suggesting that the man arrested for last week's train attack carefully prepared a jihadist assault that would have ended in carnage had passengers not intervened.

An Algerian jihadist sympathiser arrested in connection with a thwarted attack on a church in France was charged with terror-related murder Friday after five days of police questioning.

Moroccan authorities have arrested an Algerian national thought to be a member of Jund al-Khilafa, a jihadist group responsible for the September beheading of a French tourist, authorities said Sunday.

Belgium was on high alert today after two suspected jihadists were killed in a police raid, while German and French police made fresh arrests to put Europe on edge a week after the Islamist attacks in Paris.

French police arrested four people suspected of links with jihadist networks on Monday, three days after detaining a man for last week's deadly attack on a Jewish museum in Brussels.

Three suspected jihadists arrested in the days since the liberation of Timbuktu said Friday that Malian soldiers were torturing them with a method similar to waterboarding.