French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius cautioned on Tuesday that the Syrian crisis may lead to a regional conflict.

He warned that the crisis may also spread to Lebanon.

France's interior minister said Sunday he will prevent any further anti-U.S. demonstrations sparked by an anti-Islam film that has triggered sometimes deadly protests across the globe.

The warning came a day after police in Paris detained around 150 people for taking part in an unauthorized, impromptu protest near the U.S. embassy that saw three officers slightly hurt after a number of clashes.

Prince William and his wife Catherine reacted with fury Friday after a French magazine printed topless photos of her, saying it evoked painful memories of press harassment of William's mother Diana.

The young British royals, who are currently in Malaysia, were consulting lawyers over what they called a "grotesque" breach of privacy by the French version of Closer magazine, palace officials said.

French Defense Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian lauded on Thursday the Lebanese government's decision to disassociate itself from the Syrian crisis, saying that France will continue to support Lebanon.

He said: “France will maintain its support for the Lebanese army through all possible means.”

France joined a chorus of nations urging a peaceful solution to the Iran nuclear crisis Wednesday, as French President Francois Hollande urged Israel's Benjamin Netanyahu to favor diplomacy.

Hollande made the comments in a telephone conversation with Israel's prime minister Wednesday, his office said.

Former Prime Minister Saad Hariri urged Hizbullah on Wednesday to stop sending fighters to Syria and stressed the need for the international community, led by France, to take action on Syria.

“We don't accept for any Lebanese to fight alongside the crimes” committed by the Syrian regime, Hariri said following talks with French President Francois Hollande at the Elysee Palace.

A Muslim leader called Wednesday for surveillance cameras to be installed at every mosque in France following the latest in a series of attacks on Islamic places of worship.

A mosque in Limoges in the center of the country had excrement smeared on its doors overnight in an incident that reflects a growing trend, according to Abdallah Zekri, who chairs an Islamophobia Observatory set up by France's Muslim Council.

France has helped a number of Syrian military figures to desert from President Bashar Assad's embattled regime, Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius said Tuesday.

"We have contributed to a certain number of desertion operations," he told a parliamentary commission, without giving any further details.

Six people died and 27 others were missing after a ship carrying illegal immigrants capsized in the Indian Ocean off the French overseas territory of Mayotte, local officials said Saturday.

Of the 36 people who boarded the boat on the Comoran island of Anjouan Friday evening, one survivor was taken in by rescue services while two others escaped.

A fresh video emerged Saturday of four out of six French hostages held by al-Qaida in North Africa, all of them calling for negotiations to secure their freedom.

Shown separately in the video uploaded to the Mauritanian news website Sahara Medias, Pierre Legrand, Daniel Larribe, Thierry Dole and Marc Feret, who were abducted in Niger in September 2010.