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Police take three for questioning after anti-terror raids in Brussels

Belgian police detained three people for questioning after carrying out house searches in Brussels that were related to an anti-terrorism investigation, prosecutors said on...

Man detained by central Brussels mall, possibly with explosives

Belgian police detained a man possibly carrying explosives near a central Brussels shopping centre early on Tuesday, triggering a meeting of the prime minister...

Brussels central station evacuated amid heightened security fears

Brussels central train station was evacuated for about an hour on Sunday because of a suspicious suitcase amid heightened security fears in the Belgian...

Belgian PM backs minister’s comment that some Muslims cheered attacks

Belgian Prime Minister Charles Michel backed his outspoken interior minister over comments that a significant number of Muslims had cheered the Brussels bombings, and...

Belgian PM backs minister’s comment that some Muslims cheered attacks

Belgian Prime Minister Charles Michel backed his outspoken interior minister over comments that a significant number of Muslims had cheered the Brussels bombings, and...

Belgian court gives top militant recruiter harsher sentence on appeal

  A Belgian appeals court on Thursday increased top militant recruiter Khalid Zerkani’s sentence to 15 years in prison for enlisting dozens of people, including...

Paris attack suspect agrees to cooperate with French authorities: lawyer

Paris attacks suspect Salah Abdeslam wants to cooperate with French authorities, his lawyer said Thursday, confirming that his client wanted to be extradited from...

After Brussels, leaders tackling threat of nuclear terrorism

Still reeling from attacks in Brussels and Paris, world leaders are wrestling this week with the chilling prospect of the Islamic State group or...

Nuclear terrorism fears loom over Obama’s final atomic summit

Just as fears of nuclear terrorism are rising, US President Barack Obama’s drive to lock down vulnerable atomic materials worldwide seems to have lost...

Brussels bans anti-Islam rally after suicide attacks

The mayor of the Brussels district of Molenbeek on Tuesday said far-right extremists have been banned from holding a planned anti-Islam rally in the...

Brussels airport delays reopening as Belgium lowers attacks toll to 32

Brussels airport said it would not reopen on Wednesday despite drills to test resuming partial services after the suicide bombings that struck its departure...

French cartoonist shows support for victims in Brussels

The French newspaper Le Monde shared a cartoon this morning in support of the people of Brussels, in light of the twin explosions at the airport...

Another blast near presidential palace in Brussels

Another blast rocked Belgium's capital Brussels, near the presidential palace. At least 27 people were killed while 130 others injured in two explosions that rocked...

Belgium says captured Paris suspect Salah Abdeslam may have planned more...

The prime surviving suspect in the Paris attacks may have been plotting more operations with the help of a weapons cache and a network...