At least 12 people, including two policemen, have been killed in a shooting at the Paris offices of French satirical weekly Charlie Hebdo.
Another 20 people were injured in the attack, including four or five critically.
Police union official Rocco Contento described the scene inside the offices as "carnage".
Some of the best-known cartoonists in France were among the 12 killed, a judicial source said.
Publication director Stephane Charbonnier, known as Charb, and the cartoonists known as Cabu, Tignous and Wolinski were killed in the attack on the paper.
Mr Charbonnier was included in a 2013 'Wanted Dead or Alive for Crimes Against Islam' article published by Inspire, the terrorist propaganda magazine published by al-Qaeda.
Gunmen armed with Kalashnikovs and a rocket-launcher opened fire in the offices this morning.
They reportedly shouted "we have avenged the prophet" during the attack.
The French interior minister has said three criminals were involved in the attacks.
"This is a terrorist attack, there is no doubt about it," President Francois Hollande told reporters after rushing to the scene.
The office was firebombed in the past after publishing cartoons in 2011 joking about Muslim leaders.
Charlie Hebdo (Charlie Weekly) is renowned for courting controversy with satirical attacks on political and religious leaders and has published numerous cartoons lampooning the Prophet Mohammad.
Mr Hollande said 40 people were "saved" during the incident.
The government is to hold an emergency meeting following the attack and France has raised the Paris alert status to its highest level.
France is already on high alert after calls last year from Islamist militants to attack its citizens and interests in reprisal for French military strikes on Islamist strongholds in the Middle East and Africa.
Sirens could be heard across Paris as Prime Minister Manuel Valls said security would be stepped up at transport hubs, religious sites, media offices and department stores.
iTELE quoted a witness as saying he saw the incident from a building nearby in the heart of the French capital.
"About a half an hour ago two black-hooded men entered the building with Kalashnikovs [guns]," Benoit Bringer told the station.
"A few minutes later we heard lots of shots," he said, adding that the men were then seen fleeing the building.
In a video of the attack filmed by a man taking refuge on a nearby rooftop, the men can be heard shouting "Allahu Akbar" (God is greatest) between rounds of heavy arms fire.
"They're coming out. There are two of them," says a new voice on the video as two men appear in the frame, then raise their arms in a shooting posture.
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World leaders condemn attack
British Prime Minister David Cameron condemned the attack , saying: "The murders in Paris are sickening."
The White House has condemned the attack in the "strongest possible terms".
"Everybody here at the White House are with the families of those who were killed or injured in this attack," White House spokesman Josh Earnest said.
European Commission president Jean-Claude Juncker condemns the "barbarism" of the Paris attack.
German Chancellor Angela Merkel said the shooting is not only an attack on French citizens, but also on the freedoms of press and speech.
Late last year, a man shouting "Allahu Akbar" ("God is greatest") injured 13 by ramming a vehicle into a crowd in the eastern city of Dijon.
Mr Valls said at the time France had "never before faced such a high threat linked to terrorism".
The last tweet on Charlie Hebdo's account this morning was at 10.28am.
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