| Date | Type | Dead | Injured | Location and description |
| 20 July 2003 | Bombing | 0 | 16 | 2003 Nice bombing: Double attack against the regional directorates of customs and the treasury in Nice, claimed by the National Liberation Front of Corsica (FLNC). |
| 8 October 2004 | Bombing | 0 | 10 | Bomb attack against the Indonesian Embassy in Paris, claimed by the Armed French Islamic Front [fr] |
| 1 December 2007 | Shooting | 2 | 0 | Killing of two members of the Spanish Civil Guard carrying out surveillance against ETA members in Capbreton, Landes. |
| 16 March 2010 | Shooting | 1 | 0 | A French policeman was shot dead by members of ETA when he stopped their car at a routine checkpoint at Dammarie Les Lys, outside of Paris. |
| 11 March 2012–22 March 2012 | Shooting | 7 | 5 | Toulouse and Montauban shootings, murders of three French paratroopers, and a French Rabbi and three French schoolchildren (aged eight, six and three), carried out over a period of 11 days by Mohammed Merah. |
| 9 January 2013– 10 January 2013 | Shooting | 3 | 0 | Triple Murder of Kurdish Activists in Paris. During the night of January 9, 2013, three Kurdish women's activists, Fidan Doğan, 28, Sakine Cansız, 54, (who is the co-founder of the PKK), and Leyla Şaylemez, 24, were murdered execution style at the Centre d'Information sur le Kurdistan. French authorities arrested Ömer Güney for the murders. Güney died of a brain tumor in 2016 while in prison, however, in May 2019, French police reopened investigations into the murders due to speculation of Turkish government involvement in the killings. |
| 25 May 2013 | Stabbing | 0 | 1 | 2013 La Défense attack by an Islamist knifeman against a French soldier in the Paris suburb of La Défense. |
| 20 December 2014 | Stabbing | 0 (+1) | 3 | 2014 Tours police station stabbing. A man yelling "Allahu Akbar" attacked a police office in Joué-lès-Tours with a knife. He was killed and 3 police officers were injured. |
| 7 January 2015–9 January 2015 | Shooting | 17 (+3) | 22 | January 2015 Île-de-France attacks, 8 cartoonists, 2 guests, and two police officers are murdered at the satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo office in Paris, carried out by Saïd and Chérif Kouachi, two Islamist gunmen who identified themselves as belonging to Al-Qaeda in Yemen. During this period, a third Islamist gunman and close friend of the Kouachi brothers, Amedy Coulibaly was responsible for two shootings and an hostage taking at a Hypercacher kosher market. He said he synchronized his attacks with the Kouachi brothers. Coulibaly had pledged allegiance to the Islamic State. |
| 3 February 2015 | Stabbing | 0 | 3 | 3 military men, guarding a Jewish community center in Nice, are attacked by Moussa Coulibaly (not related to the January Coulibaly attacks). |
| 19 April 2015 | Shooting | 1 | 0 (+1) | Unsuccessful attack against 2 churches in Villejuif by an Algerian jihadist. He killed a woman probably when trying to steal her car but accidentally shot himself in the leg, putting an end to his plans. |
| 26 June 2015 | Beheading | 1 | 2 | Saint-Quentin-Fallavier attack. An Islamist delivery driver probably linked to ISIS decapitated a man and rammed a company van into gas cylinders at the Air Products' gas factory in an attempt to blow up the building. |
| 21 August 2015 | Shooting and stabbing | 0 | 3 (+1) | 2015 Thalys train attack. An attempted mass shooting occurred on a train traveling from Amsterdam to Paris. Four people were injured, including the assailant who was subdued by other passengers. |
| 13 November 2015–14 November 2015 | Shootings, hostage taking and suicide bombings | 131 (+7) | 413 | November 2015 Paris attacks. The single deadliest terrorist attack in French history. Multiple shooting and grenade attacks occurred on a Friday night; among the locations targeted were a music venue, sports stadium and several bar and restaurant terraces. Ninety persons were killed during a siege at an Eagles of Death Metal concert inside the Bataclan. French president François Hollande evacuated from a football match between France and Germany at the Stade de France, venue for the UEFA Euro 2016 Final, after three separate suicide bombings over the course of about 40 minutes. ISIS claimed responsibility for the attacks and President Hollande named the Paris attacks an act of war . |
| 1 January 2016 | Vehicle ramming | 0 | 2 | A man rammed his car twice into 4 soldiers protecting a mosque in Valence. He said he wanted to kill troops and jihadi propaganda images were found on his computer. A soldier and a civilian suffered minor injuries, while the other 3 troops were uninjured. |
| 7 January 2016 | Stabbing | 0 (+1) | 0 | January 2016 Paris police station attack, a jihadist wearing a fake explosive belt attacked police officers in the Goutte d'Or district in Paris with a meat cleaver, while shouting "Allahu Akbar". He was shot dead and one policeman receiving injuries. The ISIS flag and a clearly written claim in Arabic,[clarification needed] were found on the attacker.[citation needed] |
| 13 June 2016 | Stabbing | 2 (+1) | 0 | 2016 Magnanville stabbing, a police officer and his wife, a police secretary, were stabbed to death in their home in Magnanville by a jihadist. ISIS claimed responsibility. |
| 14 July 2016 | Vehicle ramming | 86 (+1) | 434 | A 19-tonne cargo truck was deliberately driven into crowds celebrating Bastille Day on the Promenade des Anglais in Nice. The driver was Mohamed Lahouaiej-Bouhlel, a Tunisian resident of France. The attack ended following an exchange of gunfire, during which Lahouaiej-Bouhlel was shot and killed by police. |
| 26 July 2016 | Stabbing | 1 (+2) | 1 | 2016 Normandy church attack, two terrorists attacked a church during a mass, killing an 86-year-old priest. ISIS claimed responsibility. |
| 3 February 2017 | Stabbing | 0 | 1 (+1) | 2017 Paris machete attack. A soldier near the Louvre museum opened fire on a man who attempted to enter the museum with a machete. The man was shouting "Allahu Akbar" and injured the soldier's scalp. |
| 16 March 2017 | Letter bomb | 0 | 1 | A letter bomb probably sent by Greek anarchist organization Conspiracy of Cells of Fire exploded at the French office of the IMF injuring one person. |
| 18 March 2017 | Shooting | 0 (+1) | 2 | 2017 Orly Airport attack. A policeman was shot and injured in the Paris suburb of Garges-les-Gonesse by an attacker who was later shot dead at Orly Airport near Paris after trying to grab a soldier's rifle. |
| 20 April 2017 | Shooting | 1 (+1) | 3 | April 2017 Champs-Élysées attack. An Islamist opened fire on police officers on the Champs-Élysées. ISIS claimed responsibility. |
| 6 June 2017 | Melee attack | 0 | 1 (+1) | 2017 Notre Dame attack. An Algerian Islamist attacked a police officer with a hammer in front of Notre-Dame de Paris. He was shot by a second policeman and arrested. He had pledged allegiance to ISIS. |
| 19 June 2017 | Vehicle ramming | 0 (+1) | 0 | June 2017 Champs-Élysées car ramming attack. A jihadist rammed his car into a police car. He was killed and the Department of Interior stated that explosives, AKM assault rifle and handguns have been found in his car. The attacker had pledged allegiance to ISIS. |
| 9 August 2017 | Vehicle ramming | 0 | 7 (+1) | 2017 Levallois-Perret attack. A man rammed his car into soldiers near their barracks outside Paris. He was arrested on the highway after a shootout. |
| 15 September 2017 | Melee attack | 0 | 2 | A man sought by police who are investigating a possible terrorist motive attacked two women with a hammer in Chalon-sur-Saône near Lyon about 15 minutes apart, by a man shouting in Arabic. Earlier a knife-wielding man attacked and was stopped by an anti-terrorist soldier on patrol in Paris Metro train station without injury. |
| 1 October 2017 | Stabbing | 2 (+1) | 0 | 2017 Marseille stabbing. A man stabbed to death a 20-year-old woman and a 17-year-old girl at Marseille-Saint-Charles station. Attacker was shot dead. He was heard shouting 'Allahu Akbar'. ISIS claimed responsibility. |
| 23 March 2018 | Shooting, hostage taking | 4 (+1) | 15 | Carcassonne and Trèbes attack. A gunman affiliated with ISIS attacked and stole a car in Carcassonne, killing the passenger and wounding the driver. He arrived in Trèbes and shot at a group of police officers who were jogging. Then, he attacked a supermarket, where three people were killed and several others were injured. |
| 1 May 2018 | Arson | 0 | 0 | Militants set fire to two La Poste vehicles along Rue Galilee in Bouguenais, Pays de la Loire, France. There were no reported casualties in the attack. Action Directe Anarchiste (ADA) claimed responsibility for the attack. |
| 12 May 2018 | Stabbing | 1 (+1) | 4 | 2018 Paris knife attack. A Chechnyan-born French Muslim, armed with a knife, killed one pedestrian and injured several more near the Garnier Opera in Paris before being fatally shot by police. |
| 30 June 2018 | Bomb plot | 0 | 0 | Asadollah Asadi, an Iranian diplomat, was sentenced to 20 years in prison for attempting to plant a bomb at an opposition rally in Paris. |
| 11 December 2018 | Shooting and stabbing | 5 (+1) | 11 | 2018 Strasbourg attack. A gunman opened fire just outside the Strasbourg Christmas Market, killing 5 and injuring 11. Killed in a gunfight with security forces two days later. |
| 5 March 2019 | Stabbing | 0 (+1) | 2 (+1) | An inmate at the high-security Condé-sur-Sarthe penitentiary stabbed two prison guards. The attack was described as a terrorist incident by French Interior Minister. |
| 24 May 2019 | Bombing | 0 | 14 | 2019 Lyon bombing. A package bomb packed with nails exploded in a centre city shopping district of Lyon, President Macron has called it an "attack." The attacker had pledged allegiance to the Islamic State. |
| 3 October 2019 | Stabbing | 4 (+1) | 1 | Paris police headquarters stabbing. A man who worked at Paris' police headquarters stabbed four of his colleagues to death. The counter-terrorism head said that the attacker had radical and extremist religious views. |
| 3 January 2020 | Stabbing | 1 (+1) | 2 | 2020 Villejuif stabbing. A man stabbed three people in Villejuif, a suburb of Paris, killing one person and wounding two others. The attacker was shot dead by police. The attacker was identified as Nathan C, a follower of salafism, an extremist sect of Islam. |
| 5 January 2020 | Attempted stabbing | 0 | 0 (+1) | French police on Sunday shot and wounded a man who had rushed toward a group of policemen with a knife shouting “Allahu akbar” in the eastern city of Metz. The suspect was on an official list of those monitored for links to militant groups. |
| 3 February 2020 | Stabbing | 0 | 1 | In Metz, a police officer was injured when stabbed by an Islamic State sympathiser. |
| 4 April 2020 | Stabbing | 2 | 5 | 2020 Romans-sur-Isère knife attack. On April 4, 2020, Two people were killed and five wounded in a knife attack, in what the interior minister called a terrorist incident. Prosecutors said the suspect was a Sudanese refugee in his 30s who lived in Romans-sur-Isère the town of the attack. |
| 27 April 2020 | Vehicle Ramming | 0 | 2 | Two police officers were seriously injured when a driver rammed his vehicle into them in Colombes, Hauts-de-Seine. The perpetrator was arrested, and a source stated that the man carried out the attack to "avenge events in Palestine". The attacker had pledged allegiance to Islamic State. |
| 25 September 2020 | Stabbing | 0 | 2 | 2020 Paris stabbing attack. Four people were wounded (two serious), after a male attacked them with a butcher knife outside of the old Charlie Hebdo magazine headquarters. The magazine had just re-published the magazine cover which sparked a similar, more brutal attack in 2015. French police have arrested two suspects and a terrorism inquiry has been launched. |
| 16 October 2020 | Beheading | 1 (+1) | 0 | A Chechen refugee beheaded Samuel Paty in Éragny-sur-Oise, northwest of Paris. Paty was a middle school teacher who had recently held a class on freedom of speech in which he showed caricatures of the Muslim prophet Mohammed. |
| 29 October 2020 | Stabbing | 3 | 0 | 2020 Nice stabbing, 3 were killed in Notre-Dame de Nice. |
| 31 October 2020 | Shooting | 0 | 1 | A Greek Orthodox priest was seriously wounded when an assailant shot at him in Lyon. |
| 17 March 2021 | Stabbing | 0 | 1 | An elderly man standing outside a Church had his throat slit by a knife wielding assailant. |
| 23 April 2021 | Stabbing | 1(+1) | 0 | A French policewoman was stabbed to death outside a police station in Rambouillet. The attacker shouted 'allahu akbar' as he carried out the attack and was shot dead by French authorities. The attacker was aged 37 and was Tunisian-born. French president, Emmanuel Macron stated that France would 'never give in to Islamic extremism' in response to the attack. |
| 28 May 2021 | Stabbing and shooting | 0(+1) | 3 | A French policewoman was critically injured after she was stabbed multiple times in the city of Nantes. The perpetrator was known to be a man in his 40s, called Ndiaga Dieye. After he stabbed the policewoman, he stole her pistol and fled the scene but was eventually found by French gendarmes, leading to a shootout in which two gendarmes were injured. The assailant was shot dead by French gendarmes. The assailant was known to authorities as a radical Islamist and had only been released from prison in March, 2021. |
| 22 November 2022 | | 0 | 1 | A 22-year-old man known to authorities as a radical Islamist attacked a police officer by shouting Allah Akbar while in police custody at the Annecy police station, he was indicted for "willful violence against a person holding public authority, in relation with a terrorist enterprise". The National Anti-Terrorist Prosecutor's Office is seized. |
