Over the years Strasbourg has taken turns under both German and French rule. While the city currently has been a part of France since 1944, the German influences are still evident throughout the city.

STRASBOURG, France-- French authorities detained at least four people as they hunted Wednesday for a suspected Islamic extremist who sprayed gunfire at one of Europe's most famous Christmas ...

STRASBOURG, France (Reuters) - Police searched through eastern France on Wednesday for a man suspected of killing at least two people in a gun attack on a Christmas market in Strasbourg and who ...

Strasbourg, in particular, has been a high-profile target. In 2000, Al Qaeda-linked operatives planned to target the Strasbourg Cathedral and Christmas market on New Year’s Eve, a plan disrupted ...

There are Christmas markets, and then there’s Strasbourg. I had booked a last-minute trip to this city in eastern France for my Christmas-obsessed 11-year-old daughter, Jane.

Police have previously described the weapon Chekatt used in the shooting as an 8mm ordnance revolver. The number of people killed in the Dec. 11 attack increased to five Sunday night after a ...

A fourth person has died as a result of a shooting attack this week at the famed Christmas market in Strasbourg, France, French authorities told CNN on Friday.

PARIS — A shooting in the French city of Strasbourg killed three people and wounded as many as a dozen others near a world-famous Christmas market on Tuesday, authorities said. The suspect, a 29 ...

We left Paris in darkness. As our high-speed train raced toward the German border at nearly 200 mph, the rain furiously lashed the windows. Instead of a blanket of snow, the fields of Alsace ...

The Christmas market and lights in Strasbourg attract hundreds of thousands of people each year. In 2000, French and German police foiled a plot by al-Qaida to set off a truck bomb near the ...