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• US warns of global 'terror' threat after French attacks
• French security forces kill gunmen, end terror rampage
• Australia in solidarity with France, says PM Abbott
• Yemen's AQAP: Al-Qaeda's most active arm
• Al-Qaida in Yemen urges local and international jihad
• FBI recommends charges against ex-CIA chief Petraeus: NY Times
• Paris shooting cases demonstrate spy agencies' limits
• IS forced to defend supply lines in Iraq: US
• French PM acknowledges "failings" in preventing attack
• U.S. prosecutors recommend criminal charges against Petraeus: N.Y. Times
• US issues global travel warning after terror attacks
• French security forces kill gunmen, end hostage sieges
• The militants who terrorised France for three days
• Charlie Hebdo gunmen and ally killed in dramatic siege climax
• Al-Qaida member in Yemen says group directed Paris attack
• Spy services struggle to track growing ranks of extremists
• French police kill gunmen in twin attacks, free 16 hostages
• 6 dead in terror clashes in Paris; several hostages freed
• US teen charged with 'trying to join IS'
• 2 Charlie Hebdo suspects killed, hostage freed
• Saudi confirms 3 citizens took part in Iraq border attack
• U.S. man accused of trying to join Islamic State overseas: Justice Department
• Paris gunman: Hostages die if police storm terror brothers
• Europe's nightmare: Terror threats both large and small
• Hezbollah chief: Extremists harm Islam more than cartoons
• Fear, turmoil in Paris with 2 hostage-taking attacks
• UK spy chief says West faces mass casualty attacks
• U.S. reports 11 air strikes against Islamic State in Syria, Iraq
• France faces 2 hostage-taking attacks; 1 on kosher market
• Saudi says arrests seven Saudis, Syrians over suicide border attack
• French terror suspects in phone contact, want 'martyr' death
• US training Iraqis for house-to-house battle against IS
• Exclusive: Paris attack suspect met prominent al Qaeda preacher in Yemen - intelligence source
• Charlie Hebdo: French police corner suspects outside Paris; hostage taken
• 2 suspects in Paris attack were on US no-fly list
• Paris gunman was from same jihadist cell as Hebdo suspects: police
• French police seal off town as they close in on newspaper killing suspects
• French police corner shooting suspects, who take hostage
• Suspected hostage-taking as French track shooting suspects

US warns of global 'terror' threat after French attacks Posted: 09 Jan 2015 04:51 PM PST The United States on Friday warned Americans to beware of "terrorist actions and violence" all over the world, following the attacks on the Charlie Hebdo magazine and a Jewish supermarket in Paris. "Recent terrorist attacks, whether by those affiliated with terrorist entities, copycats, or individual perpetrators, serve as a reminder that US citizens need to maintain a high level of vigilance and take appropriate steps to increase their security awareness," the State Department said. The advisory is an update to its "Worldwide Caution" from October 10, 2014 and comes after three days of bloodshed in France that started on Wednesday when heavily armed Islamist gunmen burst into the offices of Charlie Hebdo and killed 12 people. Four people were then killed Friday at a Jewish supermarket in Paris.

French security forces kill gunmen, end terror rampage Posted: 09 Jan 2015 04:50 PM PST DAMMARTIN-EN-GOELE, France (AP) — Two brothers suspected in a newspaper terror attack were cornered inside a printing house northeast of Paris on Friday, taking a hostage and telling police they "want to die as martyrs," a lawmaker said.

Australia in solidarity with France, says PM Abbott Posted: 09 Jan 2015 04:45 PM PST Australia grieves with France over the attack on satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo, Prime Minister Tony Abbott said Saturday, adding he had discussed the evolving international terror threat with President Francois Hollande. "The prime minister stated on behalf of the government and people of Australia how deeply our nation grieves for all the victims of the recent terror attack in Paris," the statement said. The two leaders discussed the evolving nature of the international terrorist threat and the fact that this is a common problem that our world faces." The two suspects in the Charlie Hebdo attack, Said Kouachi and his brother Cherif, were killed Friday when police stormed the building where they were holed up -- two days after bursting into Charlie Hebdo's offices and slaughtering some of France's best-loved cartoonists. In December, Australia's biggest city Sydney was rocked when a lone gunman took customers and staff at a busy cafe hostage.

Yemen's AQAP: Al-Qaeda's most active arm Posted: 09 Jan 2015 04:37 PM PST Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula, which is reported to have trained one of the two suspects in the deadly attack on French magazine Charlie Hebdo, is seen by Washington as the jihadist network's most dangerous branch. It was formed in January 2009 as a merger of the Yemeni and Saudi branches of Al-Qaeda and is led by Nasser al-Wuhayshi. AQAP has a record of launching attacks far from its base in Yemen, including a bid to blow up a US airliner over Michigan on Christmas Day in 2009. AQAP's English-language propaganda magazine "Inspire" has urged jihadists to carry out "lone wolf" attacks abroad.

Al-Qaida in Yemen urges local and international jihad Posted: 09 Jan 2015 04:35 PM PST CAIRO (AP) — The al-Qaida offshoot that masterminded the bloody rampage in France has been the most active of the terror network's branches in trying to strike in the West.

FBI recommends charges against ex-CIA chief Petraeus: NY Times Posted: 09 Jan 2015 04:34 PM PST The FBI and US Justice Department prosecutors have recommended bringing felony charges against retired General David Petraeus for allegedly providing classified information to his former mistress while he was director of the CIA, The New York Times reported Friday. The investigation stems from an affair Petraeus -- who was also commander of American forces in both Iraq and Afghanistan -- had with an Army Reserve officer who was writing his biography, the newspaper said, citing unnamed officials. The probe focuses on whether Petraeus, who resigned in 2012 when the affair became public, gave Paula Broadwell access to his CIA email account and other highly classified information. FBI agents discovered classified documents on her computer after he quit, according to the Times, which said that Attorney General Eric Holder must decide whether to seek an indictment that could send Petraeus to prison.

Paris shooting cases demonstrate spy agencies' limits Posted: 09 Jan 2015 04:28 PM PST By Mark Hosenball WASHINGTON (Reuters) - This week's deadly attacks in France by Islamist gunmen showed the limits of spy and anti-terrorist agencies, which often have information about perpetrators in advance but are only able to assemble all the clues after the bloodletting has taken place. From the Sept. 11 attacks in the United States in 2001 through a series of outrages in Europe and other parts of the world, U.S. and European security and intelligence officials say a key problem has been making connections from a mass of data. ...

IS forced to defend supply lines in Iraq: US Posted: 09 Jan 2015 04:15 PM PST Islamic State jihadists are having to spend more effort defending key supply lines in Iraq due to US-led air strikes and pressure from local forces, the Pentagon said Friday. The IS group's supply routes into Iraq from neighboring Syria have become a central focus of combat, with Iraqi government and Kurdish forces -- along with coalition warplanes -- seeking to disrupt and cut off the militants' access to weapons and equipment, spokesman Rear Admiral John Kirby told reporters. "They're trying to protect what they can hold onto now, and... also we're seeing them put a lot more emphasis on protecting their lines of communications," Kirby said. After nearly 1,700 air raids by US-led forces since August 8, the IS group's advance has been halted for the most part but the jihadists have held on to much of the territory they seized in Syria and Iraq last year.

French PM acknowledges "failings" in preventing attack Posted: 09 Jan 2015 03:58 PM PST PARIS (AP) — France's prime minister on Friday acknowledged "failings" in intelligence that led to a three-day spree of horror and at least 20 people dead, as criticism mounted that the attacks might have been avoided if officials had been more alert to the deadly peril posed by suspects already on their radar.

U.S. prosecutors recommend criminal charges against Petraeus: N.Y. Times Posted: 09 Jan 2015 03:52 PM PST WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The FBI and Justice Department prosecutors have recommended bringing criminal charges against former CIA chief David Petraeus for improperly providing classified information to a female Army Reserve officer with whom he was having an affair, the New York Times reported on Friday. The newspaper cited officials who spoke on condition of anonymity. The Justice Department investigation focuses on whether Petraeus gave the woman, Paula Broadwell, access to his CIA email account and other highly classified information. The Times said officials have recommended felony charges. ...

US issues global travel warning after terror attacks Posted: 09 Jan 2015 03:34 PM PST WASHINGTON (AP) — The United States has issued a global travel warning after recent terror attacks in France, Australia and Canada.

French security forces kill gunmen, end hostage sieges Posted: 09 Jan 2015 03:28 PM PST With explosions and gunfire, security forces Friday ended three days of terror around Paris, killing the two al-Qaida-linked brothers who staged a murderous rampage at a satirical newspaper and an accomplice ...

The militants who terrorised France for three days Posted: 09 Jan 2015 03:26 PM PST The men who terrorised France for three days had ties to Al-Qaeda and the Islamic State group, and were well-known to French intelligence services. Brothers Cherif and Said Kouachi carried out the massacre at the offices of Charlie Hebdo magazine office Wednesday, killing 12, before fleeing the capital. They holed up with a hostage at a small printing firm north of Paris on Friday before being killed by police commandos who stormed the building. Amedy Coulibaly killed a policewoman in Paris Thursday, a day before taking several people hostage at a kosher supermarket in the east of the city.

Charlie Hebdo gunmen and ally killed in dramatic siege climax Posted: 09 Jan 2015 03:23 PM PST French elite forces killed the brothers behind the Charlie Hebdo massacre and a jihadist ally Friday in a dramatic finale to three blood-soaked days that left 17 people dead and shook the nation to its core. Explosions rang out at sunset at two hostage sites around Paris as heavily armed police moved in for a fiery final showdown with gunmen who had kept France gripped with fear since 12 people were slaughtered Wednesday in the offices of the satirical magazine. On Friday the heavily-armed massacre suspects were cornered in a tiny town northeast of Paris while a third man took terrified shoppers hostage in a Jewish supermarket, where four died and seven were hurt including three police officers. As the drama reached its climax, chilling links emerged showing the brothers, identified as Cherif and Said Kouachi, and supermarket gunman Amedy Coulibaly were close allies and had worked together.

Al-Qaida member in Yemen says group directed Paris attack Posted: 09 Jan 2015 02:02 PM PST CAIRO (AP) — Al-Qaida in the Arabian Peninsula directed the attack against the French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo in Paris "as revenge for the honor" of Islam's Prophet Muhammad, a member of the group told The Associated Press on Friday.

Spy services struggle to track growing ranks of extremists Posted: 09 Jan 2015 01:44 PM PST The deadly attack on Charlie Hebdo drives home the daunting challenge facing Western intelligence agencies trying to track homegrown Islamist extremists, a task made more difficult with large numbers of jihadists returning from Syria. The swelling ranks of homegrown militants in Europe and the United States pose a mounting problem for governments, even as Western security services expand their policing powers, share intelligence and embrace far-reaching electronic surveillance, experts and officials say. "The threat these individuals pose to Americans here at home is being fueled by the conflict in Syria and Iraq and is proving particularly difficult to disrupt," Nicholas Rasmussen, director of the US National Counter-Terrorism Center (NCTC), told lawmakers last year.

French police kill gunmen in twin attacks, free 16 hostages Posted: 09 Jan 2015 12:11 PM PST With explosions and gunfire, security forces on Friday ended a three-day terror spree around Paris, killing the two al-Qaida-linked brothers who staged a murderous rampage at a satirical newspaper and ...

6 dead in terror clashes in Paris; several hostages freed Posted: 09 Jan 2015 10:25 AM PST Two al-Qaida-linked brothers suspected in the Charlie Hebdo massacre came out of their hideaway with guns blazing Friday and were killed in a clash with security forces, French police said. Moments later, ...

US teen charged with 'trying to join IS' Posted: 09 Jan 2015 09:45 AM PST A US teen arrested at a Chicago airport while allegedly trying to join up with Islamic State fighters in Iraq and Syria, has been formally charged, federal prosecutors said Friday. Mohammed Hamzah Khan, 19, faces one count of "attempting to provide material support to a foreign terrorist organization," which carries a maximum penalty of up to 15 years in prison and a $250,000 fine. No date has yet been set for Khan's next court appearance, according to the statement from the Justice Department, which added that the investigation is continuing. The Illinois teenager was arrested October 4 at Chicago's O'Hare airport with a roundtrip ticket to Istanbul.

2 Charlie Hebdo suspects killed, hostage freed Posted: 09 Jan 2015 08:45 AM PST French police stormed a printing plant north of Paris on Friday, freeing a hostage and killing two brothers linked to al-Qaida who were suspected of slaying 12 people at a Paris newspaper two days ago. ...

Saudi confirms 3 citizens took part in Iraq border attack Posted: 09 Jan 2015 08:34 AM PST RIYADH, Saudi Arabia (AP) — Saudi Arabia's Interior Ministry says that three of the four attackers who launched a deadly assault on a security patrol near the Iraqi border this week were Saudi nationals.

U.S. man accused of trying to join Islamic State overseas: Justice Department Posted: 09 Jan 2015 07:54 AM PST WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A federal grand jury indicted a 19-year-old American for trying to travel overseas to join Islamic State militants operating in Syria and Iraq, the Justice Department said on Friday. Mohammed Hamzah Khan of Bolingbrook, Illinois, a Chicago suburb, was charged with trying to provide material support to the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) in a single-count indictment returned late Thursday, the department said in a statement. ...

Paris gunman: Hostages die if police storm terror brothers Posted: 09 Jan 2015 07:46 AM PST A gunman holding at least five hostages in a Paris kosher market has threatened to kill them if French authorities launch an assault on two cornered al-Qaida-linked brothers suspected in a newspaper massacre, ...

Europe's nightmare: Terror threats both large and small Posted: 09 Jan 2015 07:46 AM PST LONDON (AP) — The military-style attack in Paris has made clear that Europe faces an evolving, ever-more complex terror threat no longer dominated by a few big players.

Hezbollah chief: Extremists harm Islam more than cartoons Posted: 09 Jan 2015 07:18 AM PST BEIRUT (AP) — The leader of the Lebanese Hezbollah group says Islamic extremists have insulted Islam and the Prophet Muhammad more than those who published satirical cartoons mocking the religion.

Fear, turmoil in Paris with 2 hostage-taking attacks Posted: 09 Jan 2015 06:57 AM PST Terrorists linked to each other seized hostages at two locations around Paris on Friday, facing off against hundreds of French security forces as the city shut down a famed Jewish neighborhood and scrambled ...

UK spy chief says West faces mass casualty attacks Posted: 09 Jan 2015 06:18 AM PST London (AFP) - Islamist militants in Syria are planning "mass casualty attacks" on Western targets, the head of British spy agency MI5 has warned, saying the deadly shooting in Paris was only a reminder of an ongoing threat.

U.S. reports 11 air strikes against Islamic State in Syria, Iraq Posted: 09 Jan 2015 06:14 AM PST WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S.-led forces launched five air strikes near Kobani, Syria, and six in Iraq since Thursday in their battle against Islamic State militants, the American military said. The strikes in Syria hit several Islamic State fighting positions, two tactical units and destroyed a building, according to a statement from the Combined Joint Task Force. The strikes in Iraq hit near al Qaim, al Asad, Sinjar and Mosul. (Reporting by Doina Chiacu; Editing by Bill Trott)

France faces 2 hostage-taking attacks; 1 on kosher market Posted: 09 Jan 2015 05:59 AM PST French security forces struggled with two rapidly developing hostage-taking situations Friday, one northeast of Paris where two terror suspects were holed up with a hostage in a printing plant and the ...

Saudi says arrests seven Saudis, Syrians over suicide border attack Posted: 09 Jan 2015 05:58 AM PST DUBAI (Reuters) - Saudi Arabia has arrested three Saudi nationals and four Syrians over links to a suicide bombing and gun attack on the kingdom's border with Iraq, the first ground assault by militants on the frontier in years. On Monday, militants killed two Saudi border guards and their commanding officer on the frontier with Iraq, the interior ministry said, in an assault one analyst called Islamic State's first assault on the kingdom. ...

French terror suspects in phone contact, want 'martyr' death Posted: 09 Jan 2015 05:33 AM PST French security forces struggled with two rapidly developing hostage-taking situations Friday, one northeast of Paris where two terror suspects were holed up with a hostage in a printing plant and the ...

US training Iraqis for house-to-house battle against IS Posted: 09 Jan 2015 05:28 AM PST A team of camouflage-clad Iraqi soldiers lines up near the door of a one-storey house north of Baghdad with rifles ready, preparing to enter and search it. For now, there are no militants inside, and American and Iraqi instructors are on hand to tell them how to position themselves, where to look when they enter and how to hold their Kalashnikov assault rifles.

Exclusive: Paris attack suspect met prominent al Qaeda preacher in Yemen - intelligence source Posted: 09 Jan 2015 05:24 AM PST By Mohammed Ghobari SANAA (Reuters) - One of two brothers suspected of carrying out the deadly shooting at a French satirical weekly met leading al Qaeda preacher Anwar al Awlaki during a stay in Yemen in 2011, a senior Yemeni intelligence source told Reuters on Friday. U.S. born and web-savvy, Awlaki was seen as an influential international recruiter to the al Qaeda movement and a prominent figure in Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP), the group's most active affiliate. He was killed in September 2011 in a drone strike widely attributed to the CIA. U.S. ...

Charlie Hebdo: French police corner suspects outside Paris; hostage taken Posted: 09 Jan 2015 05:09 AM PST French police have surrounded a printing house in a village outside Paris' Charles de Gaulle airport where the two brothers suspected in the Charlie Hebdo attack escaped to after earlier hijacking a car and kidnapping a hostage.

2 suspects in Paris attack were on US no-fly list Posted: 09 Jan 2015 04:44 AM PST The two brothers named by French authorities as chief suspects in the attack on the Charlie Hebdo newspaper in Paris were on the U.S. no-fly list, a senior U.S. counterterrorism official said Thursday. ...

Paris gunman was from same jihadist cell as Hebdo suspects: police Posted: 09 Jan 2015 04:01 AM PST PARIS (Reuters) - The man suspected of killing a policewoman in a southern suburb of Paris on Thursday before fleeing the scene was a member of the same jihadist group as the two suspects in the attack at weekly newspaper Charlie Hebdo, a police source told Reuters. The assailant believed to be behind the shooting in the Montrouge area knew Cherif and Said Kouachi, the brothers suspected of killing 10 journalists and two police officers in Wednesday's assault, the source said on Friday. ...

French police seal off town as they close in on newspaper killing suspects Posted: 09 Jan 2015 02:59 AM PST By John Irish DAMMARTIN-EN-GOELE, France (Reuters) - French anti-terrorist police surrounded a small northern town and helicopters hovered overhead after at least one person was taken hostage in a print works by two men believed to have carried out an attack on a Paris satirical journal. Earlier, police had chased a vehicle at high speed along the nearby A2 motorway towards Paris as authorities appeared to be closing in on the two brothers. Gunshots rang out and police trucks, ambulances and armoured vehicles descended on the area close to Paris's Charles de Gaulle airport. ...

French police corner shooting suspects, who take hostage Posted: 09 Jan 2015 02:53 AM PST Brothers suspected in a newspaper terror attack were cornered with a hostage inside a printing house on Friday, after they hijacked a car and police followed them to a village near Paris' main airport. ...

Suspected hostage-taking as French track shooting suspects Posted: 09 Jan 2015 02:12 AM PST A pair of heavily armed brothers suspected in the deadly storming of a satirical newspaper were cornered inside a printing house near Charles de Gaulle airport on Friday and appear to have taken a hostage, ...

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