PARIS (AFP) - Dozens of people were killed when a truck ploughed into a crowd in the French Riviera resort of Nice during Bastille Day celebrations on Thursday (July 14), the latest attack in a country still reeling from last year terror assaults by the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS).

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

Jan 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 ISIS respectively.

Feb 3, 2015

Three soldiers guarding a Jewish community centre in Nice on the French Riviera are attacked by a knife-wielding man. The 30-year-old assailant, Moussa Coulibaly, is arrested. In custody, he expresses his hatred for France, the police, the military and Jews.

April 19, 2015

Sid Ahmed Ghlam, an Algerian IT student, is arrested in Paris on suspicion of killing a woman who was found shot dead in the passenger seat of her car, and of planning an attack on a church in the Paris suburb of Villejuif.

Prosecutors say they found documents about Al-Qaeda and ISIS at his home, and that he had been in touch with a suspected militants in Syria about an attack on a church.

June 26, 2015

Frenchman Yassin Salhi, 35, kills and beheads his boss Herve Cornara and displays the severed head on the fence of a gas plant surrounded by Islamic flags.

He tries to blow up the factory at Saint-Quentin-Fallavier in south-east France, but is arrested. He commits suicide in his jail cell in December.

July 13, 2015

Four young men aged 16 to 23, including a former soldier, are arrested on charges of planning an attack on a military camp to behead an officer in the name of "jihad". They proclaim allegiance to ISIS.

Aug 21, 2015

American, British and French passengers prevent a bloodbath on a high-speed Thalys train from Amsterdam to Paris, tackling a man who opened fire on passengers. 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.

Nov 13, 2015

Nine men - most of whom had fought alongside ISIS extremists in Syria - unleash explosives near the Stade de France stadium and 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. In all, 130 people died and 350 are wounded.

On Nov 14, the ISIS claims responsibility.

Nov 18, 2015

A teacher at a Jewish school in the southern city of Marseille is stabbed by three people shouting anti-Semitic obscenities and expressing support for the ISIS. The man, himself Jewish, is injured in the arms, legs and stomach.

Jan 1, 2016

A Frenchman of Tunisian origin tries to run down troops guarding a mosque in the south-eastern 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".

Jan 7, 2016

A man wielding a meat cleaver and carrying the emblem of the ISIS 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 companion 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 barrels 2km through a crowd on Nice's palm-lined Promenade des Anglais after a Bastille Day fireworks display, killing at least 77 people and injuring scores more. The driver is shot dead by security forces.

There is no immediate claim of responsibility but prosecutors say the probe will be handled by anti-terrorism investigators.