Paris Hostage Crisis

The four people killed Friday at a Jewish supermarket in Paris were "likely" killed by the gunman at the start of the hostage-taking, the prosecutor leading the investigation said.

The United States has issued a global travel warning after recent terror attacks in France, Australia and Canada.

Al-Qaeda 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.

Amedy Coulibaly, a gunman killed by police on Friday after seizing a Jewish supermarket in Paris, told BFMTV station he had "co-ordinated" with the Charlie Hebdo killers and was a member of the Islamic State group.

Police officials say at least five people were killed, including the hostage-taker at a kosher grocery in Paris.

French police say a gunman who took four people hostage at a Paris bank has given himself up and all the hostages are safe and unharmed.

An armed man was holding two people hostage in a bank in Paris today and demanding a negotiator, police said.

A French nurse caught up in the Algeria hostage crisis revealed Monday how the fear of being raped and an overwhelming determination "not to submit to terrorists" had ensured she survived.

Many of them had explosives wrapped around their necks. Others hid, petrified, under their bed, in gaps above ceilings or wherever they could for nearly two days.

Police say authorities have subdued and taken into custody an armed employee of BMW France who allegedly took hostages at the German automaker's offices in southwest Paris.A police official says an elite anti-crime brigade in Montigny-le-Bretonneux helped free three hostages at the site.The alleged assailant, aged in his 50s, is said to have fired ...

The four people killed Friday at a Jewish supermarket in Paris were "likely" killed by the gunman at the start of the hostage-taking, the prosecutor leading the investigation said.

The United States has issued a global travel warning after recent terror attacks in France, Australia and Canada.

Al-Qaeda 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.

Amedy Coulibaly, a gunman killed by police on Friday after seizing a Jewish supermarket in Paris, told BFMTV station he had "co-ordinated" with the Charlie Hebdo killers and was a member of the Islamic State group.

Police officials say at least five people were killed, including the hostage-taker at a kosher grocery in Paris.

French police say a gunman who took four people hostage at a Paris bank has given himself up and all the hostages are safe and unharmed.

An armed man was holding two people hostage in a bank in Paris today and demanding a negotiator, police said.

A French nurse caught up in the Algeria hostage crisis revealed Monday how the fear of being raped and an overwhelming determination "not to submit to terrorists" had ensured she survived.

Many of them had explosives wrapped around their necks. Others hid, petrified, under their bed, in gaps above ceilings or wherever they could for nearly two days.

Police say authorities have subdued and taken into custody an armed employee of BMW France who allegedly took hostages at the German automaker's offices in southwest Paris.A police official says an elite anti-crime brigade in Montigny-le-Bretonneux helped free three hostages at the site.The alleged assailant, aged in his 50s, is said to have fired ...