Full Coverage: Attacks in Paris: Europe’s worst terrorist attack in more than a decade

The only surviving attacker from the 2015 massacre at the Bataclan concert hall and other Paris sites has been convicted of murder and sentenced to life.

The transfer of Salah Abdeslam, the key suspect in November’s terrorist attacks in Paris, from a high-security prison in Belgium to France on Wednesday was so quick and secret that it even took his lawyer by surprise.

The largest manhunt in Europe came to a dramatic end Friday when police in Belgium arrested a fugitive linked to the Paris terrorist attacks that killed 130 people in November.

Officials in Belgium say a man has been found dead in a Brussels apartment following an anti-terror raid linked to the Nov. 13 Paris attacks that killed 130 people.

New video released by the Islamic State group on Sunday shows the extremists who carried out the Nov. 13 attacks in Paris committing atrocities in Islamic State-controlled territory while plotting the slaughter in the French capital that left 130 people dead and hundreds injured.

Moroccan police have arrested a Belgian man of Moroccan descent who is linked to Islamic State and had a “direct relationship” to the people who carried out the Paris attacks in November, the Interior Ministry said Monday.

President Obama warned Europeans “not to simply respond with a hammer” in working against radicalization among its Muslim populations, and argued that the United States had an advantage on this front because American Muslims are better integrated into society.

Belgian police found traces of explosives, bomb-making equipment and what appeared to be suicide belts in a Brussels apartment that may have been used by a key suspect in the November Paris attacks who is still on the run, authorities said Friday.

“Made in France,” a movie about a journalist who infiltrates an Islamic terrorist cell in the suburbs of Paris, won’t be released in cinemas in France, its distributor has announced.

They came to be with friends, to share their grief and move on, raising a glass to life, on a terrace where five people died in a hail of gunfire.

Counterterrorism efforts in Southern California have long focused on the region’s distinct landmarks.

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Stock markets have been largely uneventful this year, save for the huge drops in August, and they showed through last week’s terrorist attacks in Paris a remarkable characteristic: resilience.

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Working on a tip from the CIA, Geneva police were hunting for at least four suspects allegedly linked to the radical Islamic State group and believed to be plotting a “specific” attack in the city, Swiss officials said Thursday.

“It’s a rock ’n’ roll show!”

Despite the horrific terrorist attacks in Paris, nearly three-quarters of travel managers for major U.S. corporations say their travel plans to Europe remain largely unchanged.

On the morning of Friday, Nov. 13, doctors throughout Paris — along with emergency personnel from the city’s fire brigade — held a drill to hone their response to a multiple-shooting disaster.

The man believed to have planned the Nov. 13 Paris attacks that killed 130 people and wounded hundreds more had likely planned to carry out another suicide bombing days later in the French capital’s business district, the Paris prosecutor said Tuesday.

Brussels will remain on the highest alert level and maintain security measures that have severely disrupted normal life in the city until at least Monday as it faces an “imminent” threat of attack, Belgium’s prime minister said Monday, urging his population to remain calm.

Heavily armed police and soldiers patrolled key intersections, subways were closed and many stores shut their doors in Belgium’s capital Saturday as the government warned of a threat of Paris-style attacks.

The Paris prosecutor’s office says authorities have released seven people detained during a deadly police raid linked to the Paris attacks.

Suspected Islamist gunmen stormed a luxury hotel in the Malian capital of Bamako early Friday, killing 20 people or more and taking scores of hostages during a terrifying daylong siege.

France called Friday on its European Union partners to take immediate and decisive action to toughen the bloc’s borders and prevent the entry of more violent extremists.

U.S. authorities are watching warily but have made no new plans to protect travelers during the busy Thanksgiving week despite threats from Islamic State to strike targets in New York and Washington, two law enforcement officials said Friday.

As waves of refugees from Syria converged on Europe this summer, law enforcement authorities feared this scenario: That terrorist operatives would slip in among the multitudes, allowing killers and bombers to crash the gates of Europe.

Islamic State militants boasted of their latest atrocities Wednesday by posting a photo of the crude bomb they said brought down a Russian airliner last month and announcing that they had executed two foreign captives, one Chinese and a Norwegian.

A Virginia mayor ignited a backlash Wednesday after he cited America’s mass detention of Japanese Americans during World War II as support for his call to deny Syrian refugees the opportunity to resettle in the United States.

Speculation that one of the suicide bombers involved in the Paris terrorist attacks entered Europe as a political refugee has touched off a firestorm in the United States and focused attention on how the State Department chooses and screens refugees.

The Eagles of Death Metal has just issued the band’s first statement in the wake of Friday’s terrorist attacks in Paris during which dozens of fans attending one of the group’s performances were killed.

Hundreds of people gathered Tuesday night bearing candles to remember the victims of the recent attacks that devastated Paris at a somber vigil held on the steps of Los Angeles City Hall.

President Obama bemoaned a climate of fear in the U.S. that he said was stoked by political leaders seeking to block refugees “based on hysteria” rather than facts, and he accused Republicans of providing a “potent recruitment tool” for Islamic State.

The popular gathering places – a concert hall, a sports stadium, busy bars and cafes – hit last week by shooting and bomb attacks presented extremists with ideal opportunities to inflict major casualties.

Three years ago, Khadija Aloush fled the fighting in Syria for Denmark, where she found anything but a warm welcome.

Investigators believe that a second militant may have gotten away after taking part in the deadly attacks in Paris, a U.S. law enforcement official said Tuesday, as authorities in France and Belgium scrambled to identify the potential suspect.

Two Paris-bound flights – including one that departed from Los Angeles – were diverted and grounded Tuesday evening because of bomb threats, prompting investigations by local and federal authorities.

Speaker Paul Ryan is moving toward a House vote Thursday on legislation to “pause” the resettlement of Syrian refugees to the U.S., as the White House struggles to save the program from mounting political opposition in the aftermath of the Paris attacks.

A soccer game between Germany and the Netherlands was abruptly canceled Tuesday due to the serious threat of an attack at the stadium, officials said.

If fear-mongering politicians were sincere in their desire to shut off access to the United States by those coming from the source of the Paris terror attacks, then they would be looking not at Syria, but at Belgium and France itself.

This has been a difficult week in Paris, but officials leading the city’s bid for the 2024 Summer Olympics confirmed Tuesday they will proceed with an important international meeting.

The global reach of the attacks in Paris that killed at least 129 and injured hundreds more continued to grow as the names and nationalities of the dead emerged.

There is a British prankster named Jack Jones who is trying to kick start a comedy career for himself by posting videos of his rude public encounters with unsuspecting people.

By the time teachers understood the magnitude of Friday’s terror attacks on Paris, school was over, or close to it.

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Stars of “The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 2” paid their respects to the victims of attacks in Paris last week during the Los Angeles premiere of the film Monday night by wearing modified mockingjay pins, wrapped in red, white and blue ribbon -- the colors of the French flag.

It was inevitable that the terrorism attacks in Paris last week would echo quickly through the U.S. presidential campaign.

To the editor: The Paris attacks, together with the crisis caused by the flood of Syrian refugees into Europe, make clear that the North Atlantic Treaty Organization must take the lead now in defeating Islamic State.

In one photo, he flashes a crooked, toothy smile and sports a 5 o’clock shadow as he mugs for the camera with a Kalashnikov rifle cradled across his chest and a knit cap on his head.

A drumbeat of opposition against allowing Syrian refugees into the U.S. intensified Monday as more than half the country’s governors, citing security concerns, said they would refuse to accept Syrian refugees into their states following the Paris attacks, which President Obama said “would be a betrayal of our values.”

A packed soccer stadium. A sold-out concert hall. Friday night revelers at popular Paris cafes.

Washington was among the potential targets of future attacks cited in a video released Monday purportedly by Islamic State that warned of more strikes to follow last week’s violence in Paris.

From the intensity of their rhetoric, the candidates seeking to replace President Obama might sound like they have policies for combating the Islamic State militants that are dramatically different from his.

The White House has agreed to streamline the sharing of intelligence and operational military information with French authorities, one of several efforts aimed at countering Islamic State extremists since last week’s deadly Paris attacks.

Intelligence officials in the U.S. and Europe picked up “chatter” as early as September about a potential Islamic State-related attack on France, it emerged Monday, as evidence grew that some of the men involved in last week’s terrorist assault on this city – including its possible mastermind – were known to French police.

Conservative pressure is mounting on new House Speaker Paul Ryan to block President Obama’s plan to allow up to 10,000 additional Syrian refugees to resettle in the United States.

Aiming to choke off the funding that has helped make Islamic State the world’s wealthiest terrorist group, the U.S. military has stepped up efforts to eliminate the group’s illicit oil production and smuggling capabilities.

CBS has pulled Monday’s terror-themed episodes of “Supergirl” and “NCIS: Los Angeles” after last week’s Paris terror attacks.

Friday night, in the center of Paris, hundreds of people were gunned down as they enjoyed the warm November weather, ate dinner or took in a show.

In response to the terrorist attacks Friday in Paris, John Oliver harnessed the power of premium cable to deliver a profanity-strewn tirade against Islamic State and in support of the French people.

As the investigation into the deadly attacks on this city spiraled into a Europe-wide effort, French warplanes pounded the headquarters of Islamic State on Sunday in retaliation for what the government here said was the group’s orchestration of the terrorist assault from its base in northern Syria.

Across the canal from the trendy bars and brew pubs of the Belgian capital, the district known as Molenbeek St.

Hundreds gathered for a vigil at Cal State Long Beach on Sunday afternoon to honor the memory of 23-year-old senior Nohemi Gonzalez, who was among those killed in the terrorist attacks in Paris.

There are few things as horrifying as a merciless fanatic willing to commit any conceivable atrocity for the sake of his religion.

In this heavily Muslim suburb of Paris, there was a nagging fear in the back of many minds on Sunday: Would the latest spasm of violence in the name of Islam bring retaliation against their community?

Global tragedy strikes these days with a kind of wearying familiarity.

The chilling takeaway from Friday’s terrorist attacks in Paris is that Islamic State has expanded its theater of operations beyond the Middle East.

At a makeshift shrine down the street from a concert hall turned scene of carnage, a steady stream of well-wishers came Saturday to pay tribute to scores massacred when suicide assailants struck the music theater, a soccer stadium and several restaurants and bars.

The deadly Paris attacks are putting pressure on President Obama to confront Islamic State militants more aggressively than he has been willing to consider in the past, opening a difficult deliberation for a leader who has tried to build a legacy on ending America’s wars, not extending them.

A Syrian passport found near the mangled body of a suicide bomber in the bloody aftermath of Friday’s terrorist attacks in Paris has fueled anti-migrant sentiment in Europe and confronted the sad tide of refugees fleeing war with new obstacles and suspicion.

On a warm autumn evening in Paris, Nohemi Gonzalez was spending time with three friends at a local bistro, La Belle Equipe, when gunmen opened fire from a passing black vehicle.

Citing the attacks in Paris, Lionsgate has announced the suspension of interviews by press on the red carpet at the Los Angeles premiere of “The Hunger Games: Mockingjay -- Part 2” set to take place Monday afternoon at L.A.

The terrorist attacks that rocked Paris on Friday night occurred far from the sites that tourists are most familiar with.

The killers were quiet, calm. Jerome Lorenzi decided he had to be the same.

Nick Alexander, a British man who sold merchandise for the California rock band Eagles of Death Metal, was among those killed at the Bataclan concert hall in Paris on Friday during the terrorist attacks that shook the city.

Three teams of terrorists carrying AK-47 assault rifles and wearing explosive vests with identical detonators appeared to have coordinated the attacks that killed 129 people and injured 352 across a swath of central Paris, French prosecutor Francois Molins said Saturday.

A Universal Music Group executive, Thomas Ayad, was among the victims of Friday night’s terrorist attacks in Paris, the company has confirmed.

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A Cal State Long Beach student was among those killed in the Paris terrorist attacks, according to the university.

Patrick Hutchinson, live recording engineer for the Eagles of Death Metal, was at the drag races in Pomona late Friday afternoon when his cellphone, as he put it, “went completely nonstop ballistic.”

The distributor of “Made in France,” a drama about a French journalist who follows a group of radical jihadists intent on creating trouble in Paris, has pulled the release of the movie in France following Friday’s terrorist attacks in the French capital.

CBS News is changing its game plan for Saturday’s Democratic primary debate in the aftermath of the Paris terror attacks.

After the terrorist attacks on Charlie Hebdo in Paris in January, it was clear that France wasn’t immune to acts of violence motivated by a warped interpretation of Islam.

Editor’s note: Below are some initial reactions received by letters@latimes.com to the attacks in Paris.

I sat Friday night in the dining room in front of my laptop, the TV in the next room flitting among experts and speculators about what happened in Paris, while a freshly made mincemeat pie and two loaves of pumpkin bread cooled on a nearby kitchen counter.

I lived in Paris longer than I lived in any other city.

Eagles of Death Metal had been on stage at the Bataclan concert hall in Paris for about an hour when the sold-out show turned into a scene of terror.

Los Angeles police have notified commanding officers and are monitoring “critical sites” across the city in the wake of the deadly attacks in Paris, officials said Friday afternoon.

President Obama called the attacks in Paris “an outrageous attempt to terrorize innocent civilians” and pledged the nation’s full support to the people of France in response to the violence apparently still unfolding as he spoke Friday.

The following is a statement from President Barack Obama on the attacks in Paris: President Obama: Good evening, everybody.

Editor’s note: On Friday, Nov. 13, attacks in Paris were reported at or around an Eagles of Death Metal concert at the Bataclan Theater.

Assailants turned Paris into a deadly combat zone Friday night, launching a series of explosions and shootings at popular nightspots that resulted in the deaths of more than 120 people and led to a bold counter-attack by security forces at a concert hall to free scores of hostages.