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Salah Abdeslam: The Islamic State's pot-smoking, beer-swilling enigma of the Paris attacks

The 26-year-old Franco-Moroccan, whose brother Brahim blew himself up in the French capital during the November 13 attacks, is said to have fled into the arms of the Islamic State (IS) group in Syria but he was eventually tracked down to Molenbeek, the immigrant neighbourhood where he had lived for years.

Salah Abdeslam, most wanted man for Paris Attacks, captured alive in fierce Brussels raid

The arrest came hours after prosecutors revealed that Abdeslam's fingerprints were found in an apartment in another part of Brussels earlier this week following a raid in which a suspected IS militant was killed.

Editor vows a Charlie Hebdo 'worthy' of slain colleagues

From their bunker at an undisclosed address in southern Paris, the staff of French satirical weekly Charlie Hebdo are soldiering on a year after coming close to annihilation in a jihadist attack.

France: Man shot dead as he speeds Peugeot station wagon at 4 soldiers guarding mosque

A driver was shot and wounded on Friday as he drove a car at four soldiers guarding a mosque in southeastern France, local authorities said, as the country remained on high alert after the November 13 Paris attacks.

Laughing gunmen taunted victims and played xylophone in Paris concert attack: witnesses

In the midst of the bloodbath at a music hall in Paris, one of the gunmen laughed and played the xylophone left behind after the band had fled the stage, according to new accounts emerging six weeks after France's deadliest terror attacks.

France confirms death of jihadist with Paris attacks links

France on Wednesday confirmed the death of French jihadist Charaffe el Mouadan, who had close links to at least one of the Paris attackers, as it emerged the gunmen coordinated the November 13 assault in real time.

Paris to save notes, poems and drawings left after the attacks

The city of Paris has decided to collect and archive the notes, poems and drawings left by passers-by on informal memorials at the sites of the Nov. 13 attacks, to keep the memory intact of the moving and spontaneous show of solidarity and compassion toward the victims.

France puzzles over what to do with Paris attackers' bodies

Bury them discreetly? Hand them back to their families, return them to the country of origin? Knowing what to do with the remains of the assailants involved in last month's Paris attacks is proving to be a conundrum for French officials.

Shock, tears, shame for Paris attackers' families: 'He was like a pressure cooker going to explode', says a mother

Mostefai's brother and the families of the other attackers -- most of them French or Belgian nationals -- must now cope with the shock and shame caused by the knowledge that their loved ones were responsible for the worst terror attack in France's history.

In response to 'army of fanatics', Hollande vows 'more songs, concerts and shows'

President Francois Hollande vowed Friday to destroy the "army of fanatics" behind the Paris attacks but also said France would respond with more songs, concerts and shows, as the nation paused to honour the 130 killed.