Attacks in France since Charlie Hebdo slayings

At least 84 people were killed when a truck ploughed into a crowd in the French Riviera resort town of Nice during Bastille Day celebrations this week, the latest in a series of attacks on the country, many of which have been claimed by the Islamic State group.

Here is a recap of major attacks and foiled attempts since the Charlie Hebdo shootings in January 2015.

- 2015 -

- January 7-9, 2015: Two men armed with Kalashnikov rifles storm the Paris offices of satirical weekly Charlie Hebdo killing 12 people including eight cartoonists.

A policewoman is killed just outside Paris the following day, while a gunman takes hostages at a Jewish supermarket, four of whom are killed.

The Charlie Hebdo attackers and the hostage-taker are killed in separate shootouts with police, but not before claiming allegiance to Al-Qaeda and the Islamic State (IS) respectively.

- February 3: Three soldiers guarding a Jewish community centre in Nice on the French Riviera, are attacked by a knife-wielding man.
He was armed with a Kalashnikov assault rifle, an automatic pistol and a box-cutter. The gunman is identified as 25-year-old Moroccan national Ayoub El Khazzani, known to intelligence services for links to radical Islam.

- November 13: Nine men -- most of whom had fought alongside IS extremists in Syria -- open fire on people enjoying a night out at bars and restaurants in Paris and at the Bataclan concert hall that lies just a short walk from where the Charlie Hebdo cartoonists were killed. Attackers also detonate suicide vests near the Stade de France stadium.

In all, 130 people lose their lives and 350 are wounded. The following day IS claims responsibility.

- November 18: A teacher at a Jewish school in the southern city of Marseille survives being stabbed by three people shouting anti-Semitic obscenities and expressing support for IS.

- 2016 -

- January 1, 2016: A Frenchman of Tunisian origin tries to run down troops guarding a mosque in the southeastern town of Valence. He is charged with attempted homicide after telling emergency responders he "wanted to be killed by soldiers and to kill soldiers... a way for him to appear like a martyr."

 -January 7, 2016: A man wielding a meat cleaver and carrying an IS emblem is shot dead as he tries to attack a police station in Paris. Convicted of theft in 2013, the man identified himself at the time as Sallah Ali, born in the Moroccan city of Casablanca in 1995.

- June 13, 2016: Police officer Jean-Baptiste Salvaing, 42, and his partner, Jessica Schneider, 36, are killed at their home in Magnanville, west of Paris, by Larosssi Abballa, 25.

Salvaing is stabbed to death, while Schneider's throat is slit in front of their young son. Abballa is killed by a police SWAT team, but has already claimed the murders on social media in the name of the Islamic State group.

- July 14, 2016: A truck ploughs two kilometres (1.3 miles) through a crowd on Nice's palm tree-lined Promenade des Anglais after a Bastille Day fireworks display, killing at least 84 people and leaving 200 injured. The driver is shot dead by security forces.

The Islamic State group claims responsibility for the attack two days later.