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Police Arrest Dozens in Raids in France, Germany & Belgium

HeadlineJan 16, 2015

Police in France, Belgium and Germany have made arrests over the past 24 hours in a series of raids targeting suspected Islamic militants. In Belgium, police killed two men who reportedly opened fire on them during one of about a dozen raids. Police say the men recently returned from Syria. Thirteen other people were arrested in Belgium. In Germany, police arrested two Turkish men suspected of having links to an organization supporting the self-described Islamic State. And in France, police arrested 12 people suspected of aiding Amedy Coulibaly, the kosher supermarket attacker.

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