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Iraqi President Barham Saleh with French President Emmanuel Macron in Baghdad at the weekend. (Photo by Ludovic Marin / Pool /AFP via Getty Images)
Macron Says French Troops Will Remain in Iraq As Long as They Are Wanted – Whatever the US Does
August 30, 2021 | 10:16pm EDT
A law court in Paris. (Photo by Anne-Christine Poujoulat/AFP via Getty Images)
French Prosecutors Charge Founder of Website Listing Prominent Jews and Saying ‘They Are Everywhere’
August 25, 2021 | 7:10pm EDT
French special forces soldiers stand guard near a military plane at Kabul airport on Tuesday. (Photo by STR/AFP via Getty Images)
French Special Forces Escorted Citizens, At-Risk Afghans From Embassy to Airport
August 19, 2021 | 6:20pm EDT
French police at the scene where the body of the priest was found, in Saint-Laurent-sur-Sevre on Monday. (Photo by Sebastien Salom-Gomis/AFP via Getty Images)
Killing of Priest, Allegedly by Illegal Immigrant He Was Sheltering, Stokes Debate in France
August 11, 2021 | 8:07pm EDT
French President Emmanuel Macron. (Photo by Ludovic Marin/AFP via Getty Images)
Macron’s Social Media Outreach on Vaccines Stokes Debate – and Some Derision
August 4, 2021 | 6:43pm EDT
A protestor’s placard makes the point that there are people with both pro- and anti-vaccination views who are united in opposition against the government’s ‘heath pass’ mandate. (Photo by Clement Mahoudeau/AFP via Getty Images)
Anti-Vaccine Sentiment in France: Some Suspect a Russian Link
July 28, 2021 | 8:57pm EDT
‘No to compulsory vaccination’ reads a placard held during a protes march in Paris on Thursday. (Photo by Joël Saget/AFP via Getty Images)
French Lawmakers Consider Controversial New Measures to Counter New COVID Surge
July 22, 2021 | 5:36pm EDT
National Council of Resistance of Iran supporters rally in Berlin, Germany on Saturday, during the online Free Iran summit. (Photo by Paul Zinken/AFP via Getty Images)
Iranian Dissidents, Supporters Denounce Regime and Call For Prosecution of President-Elect
July 12, 2021 | 8:02pm EDT
The Afghan national flag flies at a military base outside Kabul, vacated by French troops when they withdrew from Afghanistan in 2012. (Photo by Alexander Klein/AFP/GettyImages)
French Offer of Asylum For Afghans Working for French-Linked NGOs Draws Criticism
July 6, 2021 | 9:53pm EDT
The Al-Hol camp in northeastern Syria, where captured ISIS jihadists and family members are held along with other people displaced by the fighting. (Photo by Bulent Kilic/AFP/Getty Images)
Blinken to Europe: Detention in Syria of Foreign ISIS Fighters, Families Can’t ‘Persist Indefinitely’
June 29, 2021 | 8:17pm EDT