Belgium
The Latest: Belgium to Contribute 150 Soldiers to Lithuania
The Latest on the NATO Summit in Warsaw (all times local): 12:25 p.m. The Belgian foreign minister says his nation will provide at least 150 soldiers to a new multinational NATO battalion based in Lithuania. NATO leaders formalized an agreement at a NATO summit in Warsaw to create four battalions of about 1,000 soldiers each to...
Euro 2016: Fans celebrate as Wales storm into semi-final after beating Belgium 3-1
MILLIONS of football fans celebrated wildly last night as Wales kept the British flag flying in Euro 2016. Wales, who were 7/2 underdogs before the match, sparked scenes of delirium across the country as they beat second favourites Belgium 3-1 to go through to the semi-final. The Welsh heroes showed England how it was...
Twelve arrests as Belgium swoops on terror suspects
Police in Belgium have made 12 arrests in a huge anti-terror operation, nearly three months after the deadly bomb attacks on Brussels. Those detained overnight are suspected of plotting a terrorist attack, prosecutors say. They were among 40 taken in for questioning. Searches were conducted in 16 municipalities, mainly around...
New Picture of Paris Terror Suspect Salah Abdeslam in Prison
A Belgian newspaper today published a new picture of Paris attack suspect Salah Abdeslam, reportedly taken inside a high-security prison cell in Bruges, Belgium. The article from Het Nieuwsblad (Flemish for “The Newspaper”) describes Abdeslam as a "model prisoner" who "has a good appetite,"...
Suspected terror accomplice known as ‘Man in the Hat’ reportedly among several arrested
Mohamed Abrini, the terror suspect believed to be the "man in the hat," an accomplice of the suicide attackers at Belgium's Zaventem Airport bombing last month and the Paris massacre in November, was finally arrested in a terror sweep Friday after spending months on the run, a French police official told The...
Brussels attacks: Belgium releases terror murder suspect
A man known as Faycal C, the only person arrested and charged with involvement in the Brussels attacks, has been released for lack of evidence. Belgian media gave his name as Faycal Cheffou and said he was suspected of being the mystery third man seen in CCTV footage of the bombers. Tuesday's attacks on the airport and the...
Who is the man in white: police searching for suspect from airport blasts
Belgian federal police are searching for a man who they believe is a suspect in the Brussels attacks today, caught on surveillance video with two purported suicide bombers. A surveillance photo taken from inside Brussel’s Zaventem airport apparently minutes before the deadly blasts and released publicly shows three men,...
Belgium: Europe’s front line in the war on terror
Belgium — Brussels: It's a quaint but bustling city, famed for its picture postcard squares, its chocolate and its beer. But it is rapidly becoming infamous, too, as a fertile recruiting ground for jihadi fighters. According to police, the carnage of the Paris attacks was plotted here, and it was in these streets that...
‘We got him’: World’s most wanted man Paris terrorist Salah Abdeslam shot in Belgium raid
PARIS terrorist Salah Abdeslam has been caught alive in a massive terror raid by Belgian police. Europe's most wanted man was wounded and arrested by Belgian authorities after a dramatic raid in the Brussels district of Molenbeek, Belgian prosecutors have confirmed. Two men were shot, one of which is Abdeslam, who has been...