For the French president, a celebration of the national soccer team transformed into sleepless days of facing down a shocking extremist attack. Survivors of Islamic State’s coordinated attacks in Paris the night of Nov.... Twenty men are going on trial, six of them in absentia.... All but one of the absent men are presumed dead in Syria or Iraq....

The man accused of being behind the Bataclan terror attacks in Paris which left 130 people dead has told a French court: “ I am a soldier of Islamic State.” Salah Abdelsam, 31, is facing multiple life sentences after admitting to being part of the cell that struck the capital city on November 13 2015.As it opened on Wednesday morning, Abdeslam appeared in the defendants’ dock alongside 13 others accused of coordinating the attack. Jean-Louis Peries, president of the judge's bench, first told the

Salah Abdeslam, who allegedly discarded a malfunctioning explosive vest on Nov.... The men now on trial are largely accused of helping with logistics or transportation.... Six of the 20 are being tried in absentia....

The Bataclan Cafe and theatre in Paris where jihadists attacked and killed 90 people on Nov 13, 2015.... PHOTO: AFP Six more suspects are being tried in absentia.... Journalists inside the temporary courtroom prepared for trial over 2015 terrorist attacks at the courthouse in Paris on Sept 2, 2021....