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BRUSSELS (AFP) – The Islamic State suicide bombers who attacked Brussels airport last year targeted passengers travelling to the United States and also Jewish people, several sources told AFP.

The families of victims of terror attacks in Paris, Brussels and Israel are blaming social media companies including Facebook and Twitter for facilitating communications among terrorists.

BRUSSELS (AP) — Belgian authorities have released three people who were detained in a series of anti-terror raids in the Brussels suburb of Molenbeek, where some of the Paris and Brussels attackers lived or traveled. Ine Van Wymersch, spokeswoman for

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.

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

A British court on Tuesday convicted a Belgian man living in Birmingham of giving money to Brussels and Paris terror attacks suspect Mohamed Abrini.

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.

Following Britain’s vote to leave the European Union (EU), the nation has been stung with a £700 million EU budget increase, a leaked Treasury briefing has revealed.

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

Two police officers were attacked and stabbed in a suspected terror attack in the Brussels suburb of Schaarbeek at lunchtime Wednesday, as one of the city’s main rail stations was closed by a bomb threat. The two events took place near

Brussels (AFP) – Several thousand demonstrators gathered outside EU institutions in Brussels on Tuesday to protest against huge transatlantic trade deals linking Europe with Canada and the United States. The protests came after mass rallies in German cities on Saturday

BRUSSELS, Aug 29 (Reuters) – Arsonists set fire to Belgium’s National Institute of Criminology in Brussels on Monday, causing an explosion but no casualties, a Brussels prosecutor said.

Three people have been injured in the EU capital, Brussels, after a woman attacked them on a bus with a knife.

TEL AVIV – The first ever caucus group at the European Parliament in support of West Bank settlements will be formed this fall, The Jerusalem Post reported.

TEL AVIV – Israel is taking measures to prevent an internal EU document that pins the blame for Palestinian terror on the “occupation” from being part of EU discussions on the Israel-Palestinian conflict.

Italy’s Prime Minister Matteo Renzi of the Democratic Party (PD), still reeling from a series of recent mayoral losses to the populist Five Star Movement, is now facing the biggest challenge in his political career: a major bank crisis from accumulated bad debt.

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.

TEL AVIV – Don’t let people know where you’re from and don’t speak Hebrew, an Israeli reporter who was at the scene of Thursday night’s terrorist attack in Nice was warned by a French resident of the city.

Sen. Jeff Sessions warned against mass Muslim immigration and urged action in light of a string of Islamic terror attacks as he offered prayers for the victims of the early morning terror attack on Nice, France that has so far left over 80 children and adults dead and many more injured.

JERUSALEM – America is responsible for any bombs that kill Muslims in Muslim countries, a Palestinian preacher claimed in his sermon on Friday at Jerusalem’s Al-Aqsa Mosque.

(REUTERS) – The European Union’s authority is fraying as governments and politicians in many members challenge EU policies and take aim at “Brussels bureaucracy” in the aftermath of Britain’s vote to leave the 28-nation bloc. The Czech president and some

Although Nigel Farage, leader of the UK Independence Party (IKIP), said after the Brexit, “The euroskeptic genie is out of the bottle and it will now not be put back… EU’s dead,” he also offered the European Parliament a “sensible tariff free deal” on Tuesday that, he said, would be good for EU residents.

AFP – Britain “may never” trigger the formal divorce process with the EU despite last week’s referendum in which the country voted to leave, EU diplomats said Sunday. “My personal belief is they will never notify” the EU about their

The junior senator from Texas urged President Barack Obama to respect the United Kingdom’s decision to exit the European Union.

Global terrorism will end if the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is resolved, Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas said on Thursday as he condemned all forms of such violence.

We Americans have July 4th, and the Brits now have June 23rd.

Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas was guilty of spreading “blood libel,” Prime Minister Netanyahu’s Office said in a harsh criticism of Abbas’ speech to the European Parliament in Brussels on Thursday, in which he repeated a widely debunked media report that Israeli rabbis called to poison Palestinian water.

President Reuven Rivlin on Wednesday told members of the European Parliament that international efforts to broker an Israeli-Palestinian peace agreement — including the current French initiative — were “negotiations for negotiations’ sake,” and therefore doomed to fail.

BRUSSELS — Belgian authorities took a man into custody following a pre-dawn security alert at a major shopping center in downtown Brussels early Tuesday. The security operation followed an alert about a suspicious package. A suspect held in the operation

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

Attempts by native Belgians to keep their new “Muslim youth” house guests out of trouble have been met with failure, as media coverage surrounding a “subcultural” museum in no-go zone Molenbeek reveals the well-meaning but ultimately doomed schemes cooked up for

“In terms of Brexit, I think this has, frankly, more to do with Britain’s culture, and government, and autonomy, as a great English-speaking, common-law, Magna Carta state,” Larry Kudlow says. “I think this is a rebellion against Brussels, and a rebellion against the European Union.”