One year after al Qaeda chief Osama bin Laden was killed in a US raid, analysts say the global terror threat is far from eradicated. FRANCE 24 spoke with Anne Giudicelli, an expert in international terrorism, for further insight.
An advance team of UN observers led by Moroccan Colonel Ahmed Himmiche (pictured) is in Syria to monitor a ceasefire. UN chief Ban Ki-moon has urged Damascus to grant the mission free access and said Syria is responsible for the team's safety.
After days of speculation that he would be buried in Algeria, French-born gunman Mohamed Merah was finally laid to rest in Toulouse in the south-western region where the son of North African immigrants killed seven people in 10 days.
Toulouse gunman Mohamed Merah’s family in Algeria are struggling to come to terms with his crimes, while questions remain over what will happen to his body after French authorities return it to the family.
The Syrian army has retaken control of the rebellious Baba Amr district of Homs after weeks of heavy shelling. Syria specialist Fabrice Balanche looks at the implications of the fall of the opposition stronghold.
French journalist Edith Bouvier and British photojournalist Paul Conroy made two video appeals for help on Thursday, asking to be taken to hospital in Lebanon where their injuries from a shelling attack Wednesday might be treated.
Some of the Arab league observers were more concerned about getting nice hotel rooms and visiting the capital Damascus than reporting objectively on the deteriorating security situation in Syria, according to the head of the mission.
The change in course of a French investigation into the killing of former Rwandan leader Juvenal Habyarimana in 1994 could clear Rwanda's current leaders of any responsibility and help thaw frosty relations between Paris and Kigali.
Tunisia’s revolution was sparked by the desperate act of a jobless man, but a year later unemployment has risen in the country. FRANCE 24 asked Tunisian economist and lawmaker Moncef Cheikh Rouhou to assess the situation.
The Ben Ali regime has been gone for almost a year, but many Tunisians have yet to reap the benefits of "their" revolution. In Gafsa, one of the country’s poorest regions, some say mounting discontent could soon lead to a second upheaval.
