
Iraq: Trials Begin for Suspected French Jihadists Facing Death Penalty
About fifty French nationals transferred from Syria face Iraqi justice starting Sunday on terrorism charges related to the Islamic State.

About fifty French nationals transferred from Syria face Iraqi justice starting Sunday on terrorism charges related to the Islamic State.

A minor suspected of planning a knife attack at a Lyon school in the name of far-right ideology has been brought before a counterterrorism judge.

The minor, suspected of planning a knife attack at a high school, was arrested Thursday and brought before an antiterrorism judge Friday.

Around fifty French fighters from the Islamic State group face the death penalty before Iraqi courts, while their lawyers are calling for their repatriation.

The court found that several videos by the polemicist presented the October 7 Hamas attack "in a very favorable light."

Members of the Islamic State group currently imprisoned in Iraq have appealed to the European Court of Human Rights to challenge their detention and demand to be tried in France.

A counterterrorism expert analyzes how the organization has evolved two and a half decades after the 2001 attacks.