Updated January 12, 1:45 p.m. The most conspicuous absence at Sunday's enormous anti-terror march in Paris, which drew some 40 world leaders and more than a million French citizens, was any high-ranking official from the United States.

As many as a million people, joined by 40 world leaders, filled the streets of Paris on Sunday in solidarity after two separate terrorist attacks claimed 17 innocent lives last week. The day before, more than 3,000 miles to the south, a girl believed to be around 10 approached the entrance to a crowded market in Maiduguri, a city of some 1 million in Nigeria's Borno State.

An American terrorism commentator speaking on Fox News has been forced to apologise for describing Birmingham as a "Muslim-only city" where non-Muslims "don't go in". Steven Emerson told the channel that in London "Muslim religious police" beat "anyone who doesn't dress according to Muslim, religious Muslim attire".

Pope Francis, in a speech to Vatican diplomats on Monday, urged religious leaders to "condemn all fundamentalist and extremist interpretations of religion," following last week's attacks in Paris. Rough Cut (No reporter narration). Video provided by

The front lines in eastern Ukraine have moved very little in recent weeks as Russia-backed separatists and government forces hunker down for winter and a World War I-style impasse sets in. Ukraine appears on its way to becoming the latest "frozen conflict," a case of territorial aggression loudly condemned by an outside world unwilling to intervene and change it.

Posted: PARIS (AP) - France on Monday ordered 10,000 troops into the streets to protect sensitive sites after three days of bloodshed and terror, amid the hunt for accomplices to the attacks that left 17 people and the three gunmen dead.

Posted: The Twitter account for U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM) was hacked on Monday by individuals claiming to be part of the Islamic State, the militant group formerly known as ISIS. "ISIS is already here, we are in your PCs, in each military base," read a message posted to CENTCOM's account by the hackers.

"We can confirm that the U.S. Central Command Twitter account was compromised earlier today. CENTCOM is taking appropriate measure to address the matter," a defense official told CNN. A series of unusual tweets were published with apparent warnings from ISIS, as well as links, images and Pentagon documents that reveal contact information for members of the military.

As terrified villagers scattered into the bush in Baga town and surrounding villages, the gunmen unloaded motorcycles from their truck and chased after them. Residents hid under scant brush. Bullets pierced through them. Some sought refuge in their homes. They were burned alive.

WASHINGTON - President Obama is facing growing criticism for his decision not to attend Sunday's peace march in Paris after deadly terrorist attacks there, and for not sending a top emissary to join a show of solidarity with more than a million people and dozens of presidents and prime ministers from around the world.

WASHINGTON - Hackers claiming to be working on behalf of the Sunni militant group the Islamic State took over the Twitter feed of the United States Central Command on Monday. "In the name of Allah, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful, the CyberCaliphate continues its CyberJihad," one post said.

Pvt. Richard Halvey scribbled his last letter home in the passenger seat of an Army radio vehicle rumbling somewhere through North Africa in February 1943. He wrote on the desk built into the front of the car while his friend Ryan drove, passing across chocolate bars and sticks of gum.

PARIS - Amedy Coulibaly, one of the three gunman responsible for the terrorist attacks in France last week, produced a video that appeared online on Sunday, two days after his death, showing him sitting below the flag of the Islamic State militant group and pledging allegiance to Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, the organization's leader.

DAKAR, Senegal - A girl perhaps no more than 10 years old detonated powerful explosives concealed under her veil at a crowded northern Nigeria market on Saturday, killing as many as 20 people and wounding many more.

PARIS - Last week's terrorist attacks without doubt set all of France on edge, but the sense of wariness, even siege, has grown increasingly profound among France 's Muslim population - the largest in Europe - which seems braced for a potential backlash, both political and personal.

PARIS - Forty world leaders, including the Palestinian president and the Israeli prime minister, marched arm in arm in the vanguard of as many as a million people in Paris on Sunday in a somber display of solidarity and defiance after a shattering series of terrorist attacks.

For more than five years now, as Western terrorism investigators have searched for critical influences behind the latest jihadist plot, one name has surfaced again and again.

AS the decades roll by, there are fewer and fewer Nazi war criminals left alive to track down. Which made the recent reports suggesting that Alois Brunner, the top lieutenant to Adolf Eichmann, may have died as recently as a few years ago in his late 90s all the more surprising.

Far from precluding rational understanding, such anger should cause us to demand sensible, productive analysis and to brush aside comments from politicians or pundits that do not live up to the seriousness of the moment. The "clash of civilizations" has become a popularized frame that is wheeled out whenever an attack by Islamic extremists is carried out against a Western target.