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French Defence Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian flanked by French Army Chief of Staff General Pierre de Villiers, leaves the Elysee Palace after a security meeting with French President on January 12, 2015 in Paris. France will call up 10,000 military personnel to bolster security around “sensitive” sites in the country, in the wake of terrorist attacks that left 17 dead, its defence minister said Today. AFP PHOTO / PATRICK KOVARIK

France mobilises 10,000 troops at home after Paris shootings

by Asharq Al-Awsat | Jan 12, 2015 | World

Paris, Reuters—France will have more than 10,000 soldiers mobilized on home soil by Tuesday after 17 were killed in attacks carried out by Islamist militants in Paris last week, Defence Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian said on Monday. Speaking a day after the biggest...

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Tatang Kurniadi (R) from The National Transportation Safety Committee (KNKT) gestures next to Indonesian Military Chief General Moeldoko as Indonesian officers looks at the FDR (Flight Data Recorder) (Bottom C) of the AirAsia flight QZ8501 in Pangkalan Bun after it was retrieved from the Java Sea on January 12, 2015. (AFP PHOTO / ADEK BERRY)

Divers retrieve “black box” data recorder from AirAsia wreck

by Asharq Al-Awsat | Jan 12, 2015 | World

Jakarta and Pangkalan Bun, Indonesia, Reuters—Indonesian navy divers retrieved the black box flight data recorder from the wreck of an AirAsia passenger jet on Monday, a major step towards investigators unraveling the cause of the crash that killed all 162 people on...

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A portrait of Ahmed Merabet, the French policeman killed at point-blank range during the attack on Charlie Hebdo Magazine, is displayed with flowers and other tributes on January 11, 2014 in Paris at the place where he was assassinated on Boulevard Richard Lenoir. Merabet was killed as Cherif and Said Kouachi ran from the Paris […]

Opinion: Je Suis Ahmed

by Salman Al-dossary | Jan 12, 2015 | Opinion

Ahmed Merabet was one of the French police officers killed at the offices of French satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo, and whose death the whole world saw in pictures beamed across the globe. He was lying on the side of the road injured after being shot by the men who...

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Firefighters carry an injured man on a stretcher in front of the offices of the French satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo in Paris on January 7, 2015, after armed gunmen stormed the offices leaving at least 11 dead. (AFP Photo/Philippe Dupeyrat)

Opinion: The Kouachi Brothers’ Journey to Terror

by Abdulrahman Al-Rashed | Jan 12, 2015 | Opinion

The brothers Cherif and Said Kouachi, who carried out the attack against French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo and claimed to be directed by Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP), have a lot in common with other terrorists who joined extremist groups. What they...