US authorities have handed over six French detainees from Guantanamo Bay prison in Cuba to French authorities, officials said in Paris.

French security service agents apprehended 13 suspected militants, including one about to flee the country, in a dawn raid today that was launched to track down the perpetrators of a terrorist attack in Morocco last year.

A previously unknown terror group is threatening to blow up French railway tracks unless it is paid millions of euro.

France’s Interior Ministry has received threatening letters demanding millions of euro or warning that French rail tracks will be bombed, authorities said today.

Hundreds of French police raided the Paris offices of the Iranian opposition group the People’s Mujahedeen of Iran today.

French police have found suspected detonator parts in a flat used by four alleged Islamic militants who it is feared were planning an attack.

THREE alleged Islamic radicals arrested by French counterintelligence agents had possession of unidentified chemicals they were planning to use in an attack, according to judicial officials and media reports yesterday.

French police today arrested six suspected Islamic militants linked to Briton Richard Reid’s failed plot to blow up a transatlantic flight last year with a shoe bomb.

Three suspects arrested during a roundup of people with possible links to alleged shoe bomber Richard C Reid were placed under investigation today by a French anti-terrorism judge, judicial officials said.

French anti-terrorist police have taken five people into custody in connection with the investigation into suspected shoe bomber Richard Reid.

A key member of an Osama bin Laden cell which was set to unleash mayhem in Europe, today admitted that he recruited followers at mosques in Britain.

One of the six suspected terrorists arrested in Spain yesterday may have been planning a suicide bomb attack on US interests in Ireland.

French anti-terrorist police arrested at least four people today in connection with a planned attack on the US embassy in Paris and other American interests in France, police said.