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.
The Belgian interior minister has said a “wave” of between 3,000 and 5,000 Islamic State jihadists from Europe could return to the continent as the terror group rapidly loses territory in Iraq and Syria.
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
Brussels (AFP) – Belgian Interior Minister Jan Jambon (pictured) said Saturday that a “significant” part of the Muslim population celebrated attacks, blaming the country’s policies for failing to integrate migrants into society. He did not explicitly refer to last month’s
Israeli politicians have in part blamed Belgium’s “liberal” attitude to security for the Islamic terrorist atrocities which yesterday rocked Brussels, and have called on the country to end Muslim immigration “immediately” if it is to protect its own citizens. “If
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Trade unions representing the army and the police in Belgium are warning of the effects on their members of ongoing anti-terror operations, with police unions even threatening to go on strike. Belgium’s federal government has responded to the ongoing jihadi
The Belgian Prime Minister has slammed France for blaming Belgium in the aftermath of the Paris terrorist attacks, but his own Deputy Prime Minister has conceded they have a problem with radical Islam. Initially the Belgian Prime Minister, Charles Michel, voiced his discontentment with France
JERUSALEM – Belgian Interior Minister Jan Jambon told reporters he wants a register of everyone living in Molenbeek, a Muslim suburb of Brussels dubbed the jihadi capital of Europe, because it is not clear at present who is living there,
Belgian authorities have raised the terror alert in Brussels to the maximum (level 4) and have canceled major entertainment events for fears of an imminent, multi-pronged jihadist attack on the city, similar to those of November 13 in Paris.
The central anti-terrorism unit of Belgium’s police force has just one part-time worker monitoring internet radicalisation and the online activity of returning jihadis, according to police services watchdog, the Standing Police Monitoring Committee (Committee P). The fact the Belgian police unit charged with monitoring internet
The number of illegal entry attempts to the UK between January and June has doubled since the same period last year and is over four times higher than in 2013. In the first six months of 2014 there were 12,980 stopped illegal
Tighter border controls announced last month by Belgium’s Minister of the Interior have come under attack for their feeble application. It has transpired that illegal immigrants need only wait until late afternoon or the weekend to cross the border to get
