France to try 7 jihadists including Paris bomber's brother

Seven young men from eastern France, including the brother of one of the jihadists behind the deadly Paris attacks, will face trial for going to Syria to fight in 2013, a judicial source told AFP on Friday.

The seven from Strasbourg began returning to France from February 2014 onwards and were arrested in May.

Two other men who went to fight in Syria's civil war died there. A 10th man named Foued Mohamed-Aggad remained there until his return to take part in the November 13 rampage at the Bataclan concert hall in Paris.

A total of 130 people died in the string of attacks that struck Paris in November and sent shockwaves across the world.