
From the Independent: Two members of a motorbike gang with alleged links to global terror networks are among the suspects arrested over a plot to launch attacks in Brussels. Authorities said a suspected Isis terror cell were planning to attack
by Breitbart London1 Jan 2016, 10:43 AM PST0

A group of Belgian soldiers and policewomen reportedly held an orgy at a police station while their colleagues hunted terrorists during the recent Brussels lockdown. In recent weeks rumours have been rife among the Brussels police force of a group sex
by Sarkis Zeronian30 Dec 2015, 2:53 AM PST0

Police in Belgium have arrested two people on suspicion of plotting terror attacks in Brussels on New Year’s Eve. Anti-terror raids took place in Brussels, Flemish Brabant and Liege on Sunday and Monday, with police seizing military clothing and computer
by Nick Hallett29 Dec 2015, 3:21 AM PST0

The Belgian authorities are questioning staff at a Brussels school attended by one of the Paris attackers whose warnings that he had become worryingly radicalised were missed, press reports said Saturday. The reports, based on Flemish language dailies De Morgen
by AFP27 Dec 2015, 5:03 AM PST0

BRUSSELS (Reuters) – A police commission is interviewing staff at a Brussels college after education authorities failed to act on concerns that a student who later became one of the Paris suicide bombers had been radicalised, two Belgian newspapers said
by Reuters26 Dec 2015, 5:06 AM PST0

A 27-year-old woman has been sentenced to 18 months in prison following an incident in a police station after her arrest for refusing to take off her niqab. Stephanie Djato was arrested on 31 May 2012 at a bus stop in the Brussels borough of Jette. She had
by Sarkis Zeronian22 Dec 2015, 8:15 AM PST0

Belgian police have arrested a total of five people including two brothers during a series of arrests in connection with last month’s Paris attacks, prosecutors said Monday. Police arrested the two brothers and a third person in a raid on
by AFP21 Dec 2015, 8:43 AM PST0

Police stopped suspected Paris bomber Salah Abdeslam three times just a few hours after last month’s attacks but let him go free each time, investigators have confirmed. It was previously thought Mr Abdeslam was stopped just once by a traffic
by Nick Hallett21 Dec 2015, 5:35 AM PST0

A chemistry professor at the University of Louvain in Belgium has delivered his damning verdict on the COP21 climate summit in Paris. His name is István Marko and, by the sounds of it, he’s not going to be getting a Christmas card
by James Delingpole19 Dec 2015, 4:09 AM PST0

According to the Belgian Justice Minister, police delayed their raid on the suspected Molenbeek hiding place of Paris attacks suspect Salah Abdeslam because of a ban on night-time raids. As a result the fugitive escaped. It is believed the Brussels-born Paris attacks
by Sarkis Zeronian17 Dec 2015, 8:12 AM PST0

Contents: Number of foreign fighters joining ISIS in Syria doubles to 31,000; About 700 women from Tunisia are thought to have joined ISIS; Return of Russia’s foreign fighters from Syria threatens Russian security
by John J. Xenakis9 Dec 2015, 4:00 AM PST0

The leader of Belgium’s biggest political party has called for the closure of the European Unions’s external borders and greater efforts to achieve controlled migration, warning that “unbridled immigration” does not work. Bart De Wever, the leader of the centre-right Flemish
by Sarkis Zeronian8 Dec 2015, 7:22 AM PST0

When the Belgian government said recently it was hoping for a climate deal it wasn’t talking about the UN talks in Paris — it was talking about its own troubles. Arguments between the French and Flemish speaking regions of an
by AFP2 Dec 2015, 1:36 AM PST0

On Monday, the White House announced some tightening of the visa waiver program, whose participants include countries such as France and Belgium. The Paris terror attacks were the obvious reason for the new measures.
by John Hayward30 Nov 2015, 8:04 PM PST0

Belgian authorities released a man arrested in a counter-terror raid after less than 24-hours questioning without charge — despite bomb-making materiel having been found in his flat. Despite the one-bedroomed urban home of the unidentified man having no garden or plants
by Oliver Lane30 Nov 2015, 7:18 AM PST0

In the troubled Brussels district of Molenbeek, politician Sarah Turine is on the frontline of her own war to stop the sons of Belgian families going off to Syria to join Islamic State fighters. The first step is often to
by AFP29 Nov 2015, 1:59 AM PST0

Police in northern Italy stopped a Turkish man attempting to transport a load of 781 pump-action Winchester SXP shotguns north into Belgium and seized the merchandise.
by Thomas D. Williams, Ph.D.27 Nov 2015, 10:21 AM PST0

Norway has taken out a front-page advertisement in a major Afghan newspaper warning would-be migrants that potential asylum seekers “will be returned by force”, while the Belgian asylum secretary has written directly to migrants asking them not to come. The headline
by Oliver Lane27 Nov 2015, 4:40 AM PST0

The Great Mosque of Brussels was evacuated and 11 people decontaminated Thursday after the discovery of a suspicious package containing white powder as the EU capital remained on highest possible terror alert. “A parcel was found at the entrance to
by AFP26 Nov 2015, 9:27 AM PST0

Four of the main suspects in the Paris attacks were on a list of radicalised people compiled by Belgium’s intelligence services as early as June this year, officials said on Thursday. The list of 85 individuals included alleged Paris ringleader
by AFP26 Nov 2015, 9:19 AM PST0

A major European Union (EU) diversity conference has been cancelled at the last minute, after host-city Brussels’ ‘diverse’ population were judged as a terror threat, rather than something that needed celebrating. Home of the European Parliament and a number of associated
by Oliver Lane26 Nov 2015, 5:45 AM PST0

Belgium is battling accusations that it has become a “failed state” whose linguistic and communal divisions contributed to failures that let it become a jihadist base for the Paris attacks. Years of increasing federalism have deepened rifts between the wealthy
by AFP26 Nov 2015, 2:22 AM PST0

A post on that has gone viral shows a photograph of two Muslim women at a security check being frisked by police with the caption, “Checkpoints to prevent terrorism is apartheid! Boycott Israel!”
by Deborah Danan24 Nov 2015, 5:59 AM PST0

Time was, thoughts of Belgium led to thoughts of rich, dark chocolate, of Old Master painters and delicate, handmade lace.
by The Investigative Project on Terrorism (IPT)23 Nov 2015, 6:08 PM PST0

Brussels continues to be on lockdown into the early hours of Tuesday morning as authorities continue their manhunt for jihadi terrorists, leading Belgium’s Prime Minister to leave the country at its highest alert level until at least next week.
by Jordan Schachtel23 Nov 2015, 5:26 PM PST0