PARIS - French Defense Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian said on Thursday that 1,400 French soldiers were deployed in Mali where they carried out ground assaults as Islamist rebels resisted week-long ...

"The first troops have left," the spokesman of the French chief of staff said, confirming an announcement Monday by Niger's army, which said that the 1,400-strong French contingent would begin ...

About 1,400 French citizens or residents are in contact with networks sending fighters to Iraq and Syria, where the Islamic State armed group controls a swathe of territory.