Saudi Arabia, the birthplace of Islam, on Tuesday condemned cartoons offending the Prophet Mohammad and any attempts to link Islam with terrorism. A foreign ministry official also said in a statement that the Gulf state condemns all acts of terrorism, in an apparent reference to the beheading of a teacher in Paris this month by an Islamist radical avenging the use of cartoons of the Prophet in a class on freedom of expression.

Saudi Arabia condemns cartoons offending Prophet Mohammad

Samuel Paty, the 47-year old history teacher beheaded by a suspected Islamist last week, will posthumously get France's highest award, the "Legion d'Honneur", education minister Jean-Michel Blanquer told BFM TV on Tuesday.

Paris teacher attack: Beheaded Samuel Paty will get France's highest honour

French imam, Hassen Chalghoumi has said rectors of mosques, imams, parents, civil society groups should "wake up" calling the slain teacher "martyr for freedom of expression".

Slain teacher 'martyr for freedom of expression, says French imam

Two days after a Russian-born Islamist beheaded a teacher, the French government is preparing to expel 231 foreigners for suspected extremist religious beliefs. Also read | Fatwa was launched against beheaded teacher: French minister French history teacher Samuel Paty was beheaded on Friday outside his school in Conflans-Sainte-Honorine, in the northern Paris suburbs, by an 18-year-old man who was subsequently shot dead by police.

231 'radicalised' foreign nationals will be expelled from the country: France

French interior minister Gerald Darmanin said on Monday that a fatwa has been launched against the beheaded teacher who had shown caricatures of the Prophet Mohammed in class.

Fatwa was launched against beheaded teacher: French minister

It is a paradox as to how a person can loathe and hate the same society which he or she desires to be part of. Europe is battling with this paradox where the first and second generation immigrants from Muslim countries have led to rise in Islamic terrorism.

Beheading in France and the rise of radical Islam in Europe

The main suspect in the trial of alleged accomplices in the 2015 Paris terror attacks caused an uproar in court Friday when he threatened a policewoman during her testimony.

Paris knife assault suspect threatens police witness

The father of Ali Hassan, a young man who stabbed two persons in an attack using a meat cleaver outside the former Paris office of the controversial Charlie Hebdo magazine last week, has said he is “proud” of his son. Watch report.

Paris knife attack: Attackers family 'proud' of their son | Pakistan News

The threat of violent radical Islamism continues in Pakistan. Pakistan Nationals stabbed 2 outside old Charlie Hebdo office. Watch this video to know more.

Your Story:Threat of violent radical Islamism continues in Pakistan

Zaheer Hassan Mehmood, a 25-year-old-man from Pakistan, has been charged with "attempted murder with relation to a terrorist enterprise". However, for his father in Pakistan, he did a "great job".

Paris knife attacker's father applauds son; says he did 'a great job'

A man who tried to launch an attack at several people in Paris last week has been charged with "attempted murder with relation to a terrorist enterprise". The 25-year-old man, identified as Zaheer Hassan Mehmood, wounded two people with a meat cleaver last Friday in Paris.

Paris attacker charged with 'attempted terrorist killings'

A Pakistani man accused of wounding two people with a meat cleaver in front of the former offices of Charlie Hebdo last Friday did not know the satirical magazine had moved and wanted to set its offices on fire, the Paris prosecutor said.

Paris attacker wanted to set Charlie Hebdo offices on fire, prosecutor says

French investigators are studying a video claiming responsibility for the meat cleaver attack in Paris that targeted satirical weekly Charlie Hebdo as the government condemned an act of "Islamist terrorism".

Suspect in new Charlie Hebdo attack wanted to avenge Prophet cartoons

Four people were stabbed on Friday (September 25) near the former offices of the Charlie Hebdo satirical magazine in Paris, Prime Minister Jean Castex said.

Paris: Four injured in knife attack near former Charlie Hebdo office

French terrorism authorities are investigating a knife attack that wounded at least two people Friday near the former offices of the satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo in Paris.

WION Dispatch: Two suspects arrested in knife attack near Charlie Hebdo's former office in Paris

Prosecutors open terror inquiry into Paris knife attack

More than a hundred people protested outside French embassy in Iraqi capital Baghdad Thursday against Charlie Hebdo magazine. Charlie Hebdo is the magazine that had published controversial cartoons of Prophet Mohammad in 2015.

Baghdad: People protest against Charlie Hebdo outside French embassy

Around 200 people in Istanbul demonstrated on Sunday against a French magazine's decision to republish cartoons of the Prophet Mohammed. Satirical French weekly Charlie Hebdo -- the target of a massacre by Islamist gunmen in 2015 -- reprinted the controversial images to mark the start of the trial earlier this month of the alleged accomplices in the assault.

Protest in Istanbul against Charlie Hebdo cartoons

According to SITE observatory, Al-Qaeda threatened French weekly Charlie Hebdo with a repeat of the 2015 massacre of its staff after it republished controversial cartoons of Prophet Mohammed.

Video: Al-Qaeda threatens Charlie Hebdo for republishing Prophet Mohammed's cartoons

Thousands of Islamist protestors rallied in anti-france demonstrations across Pakistan against French satirical paper.

Charlie Hebdo protest across Pak as French paper reprints Prophet's caricatures

Tens of thousands of people protested across Pakistan on Friday against French magazine Charlie Hebdo`s reprinting of cartoons mocking the Prophet Mohammad, chanting "Death to France" and calling for boycotts of French products.

Thousands protest in Pakistan over reprinting of Mohammad cartoons in Charlie Hebdo

A primary suspect of the Charlie Hebdo shooting has denied any responsibility of the heinous attack that took place in 2015. Ali Riza Polat, a 35-year-old Franco-Turkish man, who was jailed a few weeks after the attacks said "I am innocent" when he was put on trial on Friday.

'I am innocent': Prime suspect of Charlie Hebdo shooting declines all accusations

The Islamist gunmen who struck the Charlie Hebdo magazine and a Jewish store, killing 17, are dead but on Wednesday, five years after the attack that marked the onset of a wave of Islamist violence in France, their alleged accomplices face trial.

Charlie Hebdo terrorist attack accomplices go on trial today

French President Emmanuel Macron said that "it’s never the place of a president of the Republic to pass judgment on the editorial choice of a journalist or newsroom" amid the controversy surrounding French magazine Charlie Hebdo.

We have freedom of the press, says Macron on Charlie Hebdo row

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