BRUSSELS (AFP) – A year after the Brussels bombings, Belgium is more secure but it faces the threat of battle-hardened jihadi fighters returning home as Islamic State makes its last stand, interior minister Jan Jambon said.
BRUSSELS (AP) — Belgian authorities have arrested a woman suspected of helping people who planned to launch an attack somewhere in Europe.
Islamic State terrorists have released a chilling video of a militant patrolling Belgium’s streets, threatening to chop off the heads of civilians and fill the streets with blood.
BRUSSELS (AP) — Belgian authorities detained a suspect who was driving a car with gas canisters in his trunk Thursday, setting off a security alert in the center of Brussels.
A serial rapist from Morocco — who also robbed and drugged his victims — could have assaulted as many as 230 people since 2015, Belgian investigators say.
A passenger train derailed and flipped on its side Saturday near Brussels, killing one person and injuring up to 20 others, a Belgian official said.
THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — Dutch police say they discovered nine migrants hiding in a refrigerated truck near the country’s border with Belgium, after one of the migrants called officers because the group was so cold.
A top official of the European Union’s (EU) highest court says Member States must grant visas to persons who are at risk of degrading treatment.
BRUSSELS (AFP) – Belgian police on Wednesday raided eight homes in the Brussels region as part of a counter-terrorism operation that is ongoing, prosecutors said.
Belgian anti-terror units are raiding Molenbeek-Saint-Jean, the densely populated suburb of Brussels which has been described as Europe’s “jihadi capital”. According to MailOnline the area was on “lockdown” on Saturday, with raids concentrated on the Rue Delaunoy. This is the same
From February, police in Brussels will undertake training to learn about Islam so as to foster “respectful” relations with the city’s Muslim communities.
The number of Belgians applying for firearms permits has skyrocketed, with applications in one major province more than doubling in just five years, according to the authorities.
BRUSSELS (AP) — Belgian authorities summoned soldiers to examine the contents of a package left outside the offices of the Turkish Federation in Brussels, amid fears it might have been a bomb. Brussels prosecutor’s office spokeswoman Ine Van Wymersch said
PARIS (AP) — The main suspect in a high-speed train attack thwarted by three Americans last year in northern France acted on orders from the leading member of the Islamic State cell that attacked Paris three months later, his lawyer
A British court on Tuesday convicted a Belgian man living in Birmingham of giving money to Brussels and Paris terror attacks suspect Mohamed Abrini.
A Belgian man accused of giving money to a key suspect in the Brussels and Paris terror attacks took the stand in his British trial Thursday to protest his innocence and condemn Islamic State militants as “worse than animals”.
BRUSSELS (AP) — Police have arrested 36 people, seized gold, cocaine, automatic weapons and millions of euros as they broke up a drugs and money-laundering ring operating between Morocco and Europe, Europol said Tuesday. The suspects and evidence were picked
Belgium has launched new security measures at Brussels Airport after suicide bombings there in March, taking inspiration from controls at Ben Gurion in Israel, among the most heavily protected airports in the world.
Turkish nationalists have attacked and attempted to burn down a Kurdish cultural central in Belgium, with its chairman blaming the Turkish government for inciting the violence.
The Belgian interior minister has said a “wave” of between 3,000 and 5,000 Islamic State jihadists from Europe could return to the continent as the terror group rapidly loses territory in Iraq and Syria.
Belgium’s political leaders looked Thursday to a new round of talks aimed at resolving differences that have blocked a landmark EU-Canada free trade deal and made a signing summit the same day unlikely.
A Brussels summit to seal a landmark EU-Canada trade deal is “still possible” this week, European Council President Donald Tusk said Monday, even though Belgium cannot give its approval.
Prime Minister Charles Michel said he had told European Council President Donald Tusk on Monday that Belgium could not agree to sign an EU-Canada trade deal because he had failed to secure the agreement of regional authorities.
BRUSSELS (AP) — The Belgian region of Wallonia affirmed Saturday it still stands in the way of a trade deal between the 28-nation European Union and Canada, but its leader and a top EU lawmaker were cautiously optimistic that the
BRUSSELS (AP) — Belgian prosecutors say four people have been charged with participating in the activities of a terrorist organization, including by funding it and recruiting people to fight with the Islamic State group in Syria. The Federal Prosecutor’s Office
Belgian People’s Party leader Mischaël Modrikamen has released a second video in support of Republican Presidential candidate Donald Trump after garnering millions of hits for his declaration that “America should not become another Brussels”. Shooting to prominence after his first short video
(AFP) – The brother of a man accused of attacking two Brussels police officers with a knife has been charged with terrorism offences, the Belgian federal prosecutor said on Friday. Aboubaker D., the brother of attack suspect Hicham Diop, was
(AFP) – Two Belgian policemen were arrested for helping a group of migrants return to France after they wound up in Belgium by mistake while heading to Calais, officials said Thursday. French Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve summoned Belgium’s ambassador to
The president of Flanders, the Dutch-speaking northern portion of Belgium, has said the UK could join a new North Sea union to link countries with common trading and energy interests after Brexit.
A number of police stations which don’t have security gates have closed their doors to the public after two officers were attacked in Charleroi by a machete-wielding Islamist earlier this month.
After a year of mass immigration that culminated in the Brussels terror attacks in March, just one in 10 Belgians think migrants are beneficial to their society. An Ipsos poll for broadcaster RTL and newspaper Le Soir found that only
TEL AVIV – A teacher at a Catholic high school in Belgium won an award and cash prize for Iran’s Holocaust cartoon contest, receiving praise from her colleagues who said they were proud of her.
From the Telegraph: Belgian police have launched a manhunt for a teenager after footage emerged of him calling for “the murder of all Christians”. The video shows the 15-year-old, who has not been named, in Verviers and, in Arabic, declaring, “Oh Allah,
(AFP) — The Islamic State group claimed responsibility Sunday for an attack that wounded two policewomen in the Belgian city of Charleroi, saying the machete-wielding assailant was a “soldier” of the group. Quoting an unidentified source, the IS-linked Amaq Agency
Two police women were injured outside a police station during an “Allahu Akhbar” attack in Charleroi, Belgium yesterday, prompting the nation’s Prime Minister to cut short his holiday and return to leading the nation. The Associated Press states in their report this
Two policemen have reportedly been attacked by a man with a machete shouting ‘Allah hu Akhbar’ outside a police station in Belgium.
A priest in the town of Lanaken in Belgium who offered help to an ‘asylum seeker’ was stabbed when he refused to give the man money.
A major police presence has been felt in central Brussels this afternoon as despite the extremely high temperatures a suspicious male wearing a heavy overcoat reported as having “wires” or “cables trailing from the bottom was spotted in the city.
The French army is currently investigating 50 cases of “radicalisation” in its ranks. A new report from the Directorate for Protection of Security and Defence (DPSD) says the threat of Islamic terrorism within the army is growing. The report stated
BRUSSELS (AP) — Belgian authorities charged three men with terror-related crimes after two days of raids and the detention of 40 people in a major investigation which they said required “immediate intervention” because they feared a new attack was close.
