Belgian authorities have raided dozens of homes and arrested 12 suspects in a major anti-terror investigation which they said required “immediate intervention,” fearing an attack could have been close.
In light of indications of a possible terror attack, Belgian law enforcement authorities have called on soldiers patrolling the streets of Brussels to be on high alert during Ramadan. The Belgian police service has requested extra vigilance from soldiers deployed on the streets
A Bay Area medical practitioner is opening up his own euthanasia practice, taking advantage of this Thursday’s implementation of California’s new physician-assisted suicide law.
As part of a campaign against religious radicalism, local authorities in the troubled Brussels district of Molenbeek have ordered the closure of a “clandestine Islamic school”. On Tuesday the mayor of Molenbeek, Françoise Schepmans, ordered the school to be closed after
BRUSSELS (Reuters) – Striking prison warders burst into the Belgian Justice Ministry building on Tuesday, breaking windows and trashing fittings before being forced out by baton-wielding riot police firing pepper spray. Several dozen protesters, some covering their faces with scarves,
The Belgian Defence Minister has confirmed that 60 serving soldiers are being monitored by military intelligence after having exhibited signs of Islamic extremism.
Belgium will extend its F-16 air strikes against Islamic State jihadists in Iraq into Syria, the government said Friday, as it grapples with the aftermath of deadly IS-claimed bomb attacks in Brussels in March. “In accordance with UN Resolution 2249,
(AFP) – Belgium faces a growing crisis in its prisons, with the army called in to help and inmates stuck in their cells 24 hours a day as the government struggles to end a strike by prison staff. “The situation
One person has died and four suspected Iraqi people smugglers have been arrested, after they were shot by police during a 140 mile an hour chase through Belgium in a British registered car filled with drugs. The dramatic sequence of events, involving
Two people appeared in court in London on Friday accused of giving thousands of pounds to Brussels and Paris attacks suspect Mohamed Abrini when he was in Britain last summer. Briton Mohammed Ali Ahmed, 26, and Belgian citizen Zakaria Boufassil,
Belgium is to provide iodine pills to its entire population of around 11 million people to protect against radioactivity in case of a nuclear accident, the health minister was quoted as saying Thursday. The BBC reported that Health Minister Maggie De Block
There will soon be more Muslims than Christians in Europe, a Belgian minister has claimed. Speaking before the European Parliament, Koen Geens said the continent “does not realise this” yet but it could soon be the reality. This is due
One of the jihadists who blew themselves up at Brussels airport last month had in fact worked at the site for five years until 2012, Belgium’s VTM television reported Wednesday. It had already emerged earlier that Najim Laachraoui also briefly
The Prime Minister of Belgium has backed his Interior Minister who has come under fire for stating that some Belgian Muslims had celebrated the recent Brussels attacks. In an interview at the weekend with the Flemish daily newspaper De Standaard, discussing the
Around 7,000 people marched through Brussels against jihadist violence on Sunday, nearly a month after coordinated suicide attacks in the Belgian capital killed 32 people and wounded hundreds of others. Organised by civil society groups, the so-called “march against terror
A terror-trial following the fatal 2015 Copenhagen shootings at a free speech event and a synagogue has witnessed a shocking outburst by the defendant as he called the judge a “Nazi”. 31 year old Mahmoud Rabea is one of four
Veteran Belgian politician and European Union (EU) ‘Counter-Terrorism Coordinator” Gilles de Kerchove has said “fourth-rank footsoldiers” of the Islamic State shouldn’t be jailed when they return to Europe as they would be radicalised there even more effectively than they had been in Syria and Iraq.
Belgium’s transport minister resigned following the revelation she was informed of reports highlighting security deficiencies in Belgian airports — including Brussels — despite at first saying she had no knowledge of them. The classified European Union (EU) reports in question, leaked by the the Ecolo and
The Syrian-origin Swedish passport holder arrested in Belgium last week for his involvement in the Brussels bomb attacks is a former poster boy for Sweden’s efforts at integrating migrants into their society. Now accused of murder, and captured on CCTV
A Belgian appeals court on Thursday increased top jihadist recruiter Khalid Zerkani’s sentence to 15 years in prison for enlisting dozens of people, including key suspects in the Brussels and Paris attacks. He is “the biggest recruiter of jihadists Belgium
Teachers working in the predominantly Muslim districts of Molenbeek and Schaerbeek in Brussels have reported that “90 percent of their students, 17, 18 years old” called the Islamist terrorists who attacked Paris and Brussels “heroes”. The revelation came in an article in the New York
Rep. Peter King (R-NY) spoke Sunday on New York AM 970’s “The Cats Roundtable” on the topic of the Syrian refugee crisis. King told host John Catsimatidis that President Barack Obama’s plan to allow 100,000 Syrian refugees into the U.S. could be dangerous for the country. “There
From ABC News: The terror group that unleashed deadly attacks on the Brussels airport and subway on March 22, had planned to launch a second attack on France — but instead turned their attention to Brussels, Belgium’s Federal Prosecution Office
Swedish national Osama Krayem, charged with terrorist murders over the Brussels metro bombing, is remembered back home as an idle youth who smoked and drank before suddenly turning radical and heading off to wage jihad in Syria. The son of
Belgium’s federal prosecutor said on Saturday that Paris attacks suspect Mohamed Abrini admitted to being the “man in the hat” seen accompanying two suicide bombers at Brussels airport on March 22. “We confronted him with the video evidence prepared by
Mohamed Abrini, wanted over November’s Islamic State attacks in Paris, has been arrested in Brussels, Belgium’s public broadcasters said on Friday, adding that he was probably involved in last month’s Brussels bombings. Public prosecutors confirmed in a brief statement only
One of the Brussels terrorists worked briefly as a cleaner at the European Union parliament and had full access to every office, it has been revealed. Authorities at the European Parliament announced on Wednesday that one of the terrorists responsible for
The Islamwatch website being launched today by Flemish nationalists aims to report, map and monitor the gradual ‘Islamisation’ of Flanders. The populist Vlaams Belang (Flemish Interest – VB) party is today launching the Islamwatch website in Belgium. The party is a member of Marine
The media have blamed the nationalist group Génération Identitaire for the arrest of two protesters alleged to be carrying Molotov cocktails at a banned anti-migrant protest in Molenbeek. The group have told Breitbart London that this is untrue, and they had no presence
Dr. Sebastian Gorka appeared on Fox News Saturday to discuss the ongoing Islamic State terror threat in Belgium, and new ISIS online messages calling for German Muslims to carry out Brussels-style attacks in Germany.
TEL AVIV – “Israel is one of the countries most prepared for scenarios of nuclear terrorism,” the country’s National Infrastructure and Energy Minister Yuval Steinitz said Saturday at a nuclear security summit in Washington. “On the whole we can sleep soundly,
A Brussels police chief turned up drunk to a crisis a meeting on the day of last week’s terror attacks, a local newspaper has reported. Dernière Heure says the unnamed senior police officer was visibly intoxicated when top officials from
TEL AVIV – In the wake of the Brussels attacks, the Arab press has been awash with explosive articles acknowledging the Muslim world’s responsibility for global terror. The views expressed by writers from Kuwait to Jordan to Saudi Arabia represent a brutal reckoning
Republican 2016 presidential candidate Sen. Ted Cruz cautioned, “America should not make the mistakes of Europe,” during CNN’s Tuesday night town hall. He highlighted what it would mean to “patrol and secure Muslim neighborhoods” to prevent radical Islamic terrorist plots in America.
Two suspects charged over their alleged involvement in a foiled French attack plot are to be held in custody in Belgium for another week, the federal prosecutor said Wednesday. With Brussels reeling from deadly suicide bomb attacks on its airport
France has “at least a hundred neighbourhoods” like the Brussels jihadi hotspot of Molenbeek, a French minister has warned. But while his socialist colleagues have lined up to condemn his statement, National Front politicians have warned that that figure is
From the Washington Post: LIEGE, Belgium — Stephane Medot knows a thing or two about Belgian prisons. He spent 10 years in them. Arrested for carrying out more than a dozen armed bank robberies, the stocky, bald-headed Medot moved from
Armstrong Williams, radio host and former senior adviser to the presidential campaign of Dr. Ben Carson, joined host Stephen K. Bannon on Monday morning’s edition of Breitbart News Daily to discuss Europe’s response to terrorism after the Brussels bombing and declaring the European Union failed to protect Europeans from Muslim terrorists.
JERUSALEM – Palestinian Authority spokesman Adnan Al-Damiri claimed that Israel was behind the recent terrorist attacks in Brussels, according to translations provided by Palestinian Media Watch (PMW). Suggesting that it was too much of a coincidence that the attacks occurred when European support for a
Brussels Airport said it will run tests on Tuesday to see if repair work after two suicide bomb attacks wrecked the departure hall was satisfactory, but it could not give a firm date for resuming services. “The construction and fire
