Al Qaeda threatens to launch more attacks after 17 people die in Paris shootings

Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) has released a video threatening the West that they would launch more attacks if they do not stop their "aggression against the Muslims" after 17 people were killed as a result of the attacks on Charlie Hebdo's headquarters and subsequent sieges at the kosher bakery and a print works.

AQAP has also claimed that it sent the two brothers Said Kouachi and Cherif Kouachi to launch the attack at Charlie Hebdo headquarters in Paris "as revenge for the honour" of the Prophet Mohammed, reported Daily Star.

One of Britain's most influential Jewish journalists said, after the siege at a Kosher store ended in a bloodbath, that people are fleeing terror-hit Paris because of growing anti- Semitism.

The Kouchi brothers were killed in a separate raid in a warehouse at almost the same time as the blast at the Kosher supermarket in the French capital.

According to reports, Amedy Coulibaly, the man behind the shooting at the Jewish supermarket, coordinated the attacks with the Kouchi brothers and was a member of the Islamic State (IS).