Said Kouachi

?We have been following with great concern what is happening at the Fatih Mosque in Istanbul,? a Western diplomat told me, in reference to demonstrations of support of the Kouachi brothers who attacked the French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo last month.

Four men will appear before a judge in France on Jan. 20 to face possible charges of providing support to one of the Paris Islamist attackers, the prosecutors' office said.
      

This week's edition of Charlie Hebdo, put together by survivors of last week's newsroom massacre in Paris by Islamist gunmen, will defiantly feature caricatures of the Prophet Mohammed, its lawyer said Jan. 12.

The special issue, to come out on Jan. 14, will also be offered "in 16 languages" for readers around the world, one of its columnists, Patrick Pelloux, said.

France will deploy nearly 5,000 security forces and police to protect the 700 Jewish schools in the country, as Prime Minister Manuel Valls said Jan. 12 that the gunman who attacked a kosher supermarket probably had an accomplice.
      

A man looking like the attacker, who killed a female police officer and took hostages in a supermarket in Paris, has claimed in a posthumous video on Sunday he has member of the Islamic State (IS) militant group.

Greek Prime Minister Antonis Samaras is expected to attend a French national unity rally in Paris on Sunday following an invitation from the country?s President Francois Hollande.

The peaceful march was organized in the aftermath of the Charlie Hebdo massacre in Paris last Wednesday in which 12 people were shot dead by French-Algerian brothers Cherif and Said Kouachi.

The French security forces stormed almost simultaneously both hostage sites - the kosher supermarket in Porte de Vincennes district in Paris and the printing shop in the town of Dammartin-en-Goele.

The suspected Charlie Hebdo gunmen, who had taken a hostage at a printing shop in Dammartin on Friday, were killed in the assault, the BBC reports.

Police have denied their own previous reports that two people had been killed after a shootout in a Kosher supermarket in Paris, France.

An unknown number of people are being held hostage.

The brothers Cherif and Said Kouachi, who are suspected of having killed 12 people in the attack on Charlie Hebdo weekly, have told police they want to "die in martyrdom", a French official says.

This comes as authorities have started talks with the two men, nearly 48 hours after the events at Charlie Hebdo's office.

Shots have been heard 45 km north-east of Paris as police are driving after a car presumably used by the gunmen who committed the attack on satirical weekly Charlie Hebdo on Wednesday.

For nearly two days thousands of police officers have been taking part in the manhunt following the twelve murders at Charlie Hebdo's office in Paris.