The Islamic State militant Salah Abdeslam, one of the masterminds behind the Friday-the-Thirteenth Paris massacre that killed 130 people last November, was extradited from Belgium to France early Wednesday morning.
PARIS (Reuters) – France plans to extend the state of emergency in place since November’s attacks on Paris for a further two months to ensure security at the Euro 2016 football tournament, Prime Minister Manuel Valls said on Wednesday. “Faced
BRUSSELS (Reuters) – A Swede who is a suspect in March’s Brussels metro bombing is now also under suspicion for playing a role in the Paris attacks last November, Belgian newspaper De Standaard said on Tuesday. The paper said 23-year-old
Since the Islamist terror attacks in Paris last November, the streets of major French cities have been guarded by soldiers in full military fatigues. That permanent presence of the French army represents half of all its soldiers now deployed on military operations, but has been dismissed by critics
Two drivers chauffeuring European Parliament bureaucrats around the heart of European Union (EU) were allegedly found with Islamic State propaganda, prompting the parliament to approve a €10 million budget to expand and bring the driver service in house. The drivers were
LONDON (Reuters) – British police have arrested five people on suspicion of preparing acts of terrorism as part of an investigation which a security source said was linked to the attacks in Paris and Brussels. Three men and a woman
From ABC News: The terror group that unleashed deadly attacks on the Brussels airport and subway on March 22, had planned to launch a second attack on France — but instead turned their attention to Brussels, Belgium’s Federal Prosecution Office
Belgium’s federal prosecutor said on Saturday that Paris attacks suspect Mohamed Abrini admitted to being the “man in the hat” seen accompanying two suicide bombers at Brussels airport on March 22. “We confronted him with the video evidence prepared by
BRUSSELS (Reuters) – Belgian police ended a search of an apartment complex in the central Brussels district of Etterbeek on Saturday without making arrests after having evacuated the building’s residents, a Reuters journalist at the scene said. The building, which
Police have uncovered a large and growing network of Islamic State fighters, at least two of whom came to Europe as “refugees.” French and Belgian authorities have found that the scale of the threat of terrorism could be much bigger
Former PM John Howard says Australia needs to undertake a “sensible strengthening” of the gun ban imposed by his government in 1996.
Islamic State (IS) terrorists have released a threatening new video, praising the attacks in Paris and Brussels and promising London, Berlin or Rome will be next. The video, titled, “Fight them, Allah will punish them by your hands” after a
The suspected ringleader of the Paris attacks, Salah Abdeslam, decided not to blow himself up during the wave of killings in the French capital last year, his brother said. Mohamed Abdeslam said his brother “voluntarily chose not to blow himself
THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — Dutch police arrested a 32-year-old Frenchman in the port city of Rotterdam on Sunday at the request of French authorities who suspect him of “involvement in planning a terror attack,” prosecutors said. Residents were evacuated
BRUSSELS (AP) — Belgium’s prime minister refused to accept the resignations of his justice and interior ministers Thursday despite increasing evidence of intelligence and law enforcement failures to prevent this week’s attacks by Islamic militants. “We don’t have to be
In the wake of the Brussels terror attacks, threats are being made directly against Germany in the name of Islamic State (IS). Federal Police say they are woefully unprepared and under-equipped, and that any police action during an act of
BRUSSELS, March 20 (Reuters) – After the Paris attacks, security forces searched far and wide for prime suspect Salah Abdeslam, who vanished after returning to Brussels, believing Islamic State could have spirited him away to Turkey, Syria or Morocco. It
BRUSSELS (AP) — After a bullet in the leg ended his four-month flight from the law, Salah Abdeslam started a legal fight Saturday against his extradition from Belgium to France, where the president and the families of 130 victims want
BRUSSELS (Reuters) – Belgian police found fingerprints of the most wanted fugitive from November’s Paris attacks at the scene of a shootout this week, officials said on Friday, and the public broadcaster said he may have narrowly evaded capture. The
BRUSSELS (AP) — Belgian investigators were hunting Wednesday for two suspects who fled an apartment linked to the Nov. 13 attacks in Paris, after a police sniper killed a third man and uncovered weapons, ammunition and an Islamic State flag,
Belgian prosecutors have announced shots were today fired at police in Belgium’s capital city, Brussels, as they carried out a major counter-terror operation linked to November’s Islamist Paris attacks. Federal prosecutor spokesman, Eric Van Der Sypt, announced police were fired at, but
Dallas Mayor Mike Rawlings said he believes welcoming refugees is crucial to Dallas becoming a “global city” during a recent summit on the city’s economy, its workforce, and its future. The Democratic mayor made the statement after being asked about “hosting refugees” and “bringing people inside” as “one of the building blocks of a revitalized town.”
The frontman of the band whose concert was targeted in the Paris attacks apologized Friday for alleging that the club’s security guards were involved, saying he was struggling with trauma. “I humbly beg forgiveness from the people of France, the
Two teenage girls have been charged in France with allegedly plotting to assault a Paris concert hall some four months after the nation’s deadliest terror attacks, legal sources said Saturday. The girls, 15 and 17 years old, exchanged messages on
The Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence sent a March 9 email alert urging opposition to Donald Trump for his pro-gun stance on “concealed carry” and because of his support for allowing teachers to defend themselves and their students on school campuses.
Algerian authorities have jailed a man with dual Algerian and Belgian citizenship for links with the ringleader of the Paris attacks, Abdelhamid Abaaoud, a court statement said on Saturday. The court in the Algerian city of Bejaia said 29-year-old Zahir
Eagles of Death Metal frontman Jesse Hughes claimed that if everyone had guns, the Bataclan massacre may not have happened, as he returned to Paris Tuesday to play in front of hundreds of survivors of November’s terror attacks. In a
In an interview published February 14, Eagles of Death Metal lead singer Jesse Hughes said the November 13 Paris terror attacks have him carrying a gun everywhere he goes in the U.S.
American rockers Eagles of Death Metal took to the stage in Stockholm Saturday, ahead of their return to Paris next week to “finish” the fateful November concert that ended with jihadi gunmen killing 90 of their fans. About 1,000 fans
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
STOCKHOLM (Reuters) – Eagles of Death Metal, the band on stage during the deadliest of the Islamic State attacks in Paris in November last year, has scheduled its first concert since the massacre. The concert is set for Stockholm on
A look at the RealClearPolitics averages allows us to pinpoint the exact moment when Carson began to fade, never to recover: Nov. 13, 2015. That was the day that Islamic State terrorists carried out bloody attacks across Paris.
(Reuters) – President François Hollande’s plan to strip French citizenship from people convicted of terrorism passed a first hurdle on Tuesday when the lower house of parliament backed controversial proposals introduced after Islamic terrorists killed 130 people in Paris last
Disneyland Paris has seen visitor numbers fall by eight percent since deadly attacks in the French capital last November in which 130 people died, the Euro Disney company announced Tuesday. “Primarily due to the November events in Paris,” Euro Disney
(AFP) – A Paris restaurant hit in last November’s terror attacks officially reopened Friday — with the owner complaining business had been ruined by claims he sold footage of the onslaught to a British newspaper. The Islamic State jihadists who
The woman who led the French authorities to Abdelhamid Abaaoud, the mastermind behind last November’s terrorist atrocity in Paris, has said that 90 jihadis who posed as migrants are currently in Paris. Despite foiling further attacks including a planned attack
German police today arrested two Algerian men reportedly linked to the Islamic State terror group during raids in Berlin, Hanover and Attendorn in the North Rhine-Westphalia state. The suspects are said to have “lived in refugee shelters”. https://twitter.com/AFP/status/695173030285303808 The main suspect, reported to be a
The Belgian and French prime ministers on Monday agreed on the need to boost counter-terror cooperation, after Belgium came under fire for failing to help prevent November’s Paris terror attacks. Prime Minister Charles Michel of Belgium (pictured left) and French
AMSTERDAM (Reuters) – Move over FBI: Europe now has its own “most wanted” list, with suspects in Islamist militant attacks on Paris looming large. European police agencies on Friday introduced the list on a website hosted by Europol, as part
French police have arrested a man at the Disneyland Paris theme park after he was found with two two low-calibre handguns and a Quran hidden inside a suitcase. An Interior Ministry official said the 28-year-old man was stopped by security staff entering a
