Belgium Terror Arrests

An Indian national with addresses in the UK and Belgium has been arrested in London by Scotland Yard on an extradition warrant from the US, it emerged as part of a UK-US coordinated action targeting terrorism financing.

The knifeman who fatally stabbed a Brussels police officer before being shot and arrested was already on a watch list maintained by Belgium's terrorism monitoring agency, federal prosecutors said Friday.

Belgium on Tuesday charged four people with involvement in terrorism after 15 early morning raids in the cities of Ghent, Antwerp and Deinze, the federal prosecutor's office said.

Belgium arrested two people and charged them with "participating in activities of a terrorist group", federal prosecutors said on Saturday, part of wide-ranging investigations following the deadly attacks in Paris and Brussels that have been claimed by ISIS.

The arrest of Paris attacks suspect Mohamed Abrini in raids linked to the deadly Brussels airport and metro bombings highlighted Saturday the links between the Islamic State jihadists behind Belgium and France's worst terror outrages.

Belgian police arrested three more people on Friday as investigations into Tuesday's suicide bombings by ISIS terrorists in Brussels threw up more links to killings in Paris last year.

A man arrested near Paris suspected of plotting an attack on France was convicted in Belgium in July along with Abdelhamid Abaaoud, the ringleader of the November 13 attacks on the French capital, police sources said today.

Belgian police were holding five people early Friday over an alleged New Year plot in Brussels and also arrested a 10th suspect over last month's attacks in Paris.

A man was arrested during a search of a house in Brussels on Wednesday, federal prosecutors said today, making him the 10th person to be held in Belgium over the militant attacks in Paris which killed 130 people in November.

Belgian security forces made more than a dozen arrests in a series of raids across the capital on Sunday night as they hunted down suspected Islamic State militants, but said sweeping security measures would be kept in place as the major suspect from the Paris attacks remained at large.

A man arrested today during a police assault on the northern Paris suburb of Saint-Denis told AFP he had lent his apartment to two people from Belgium as a favour to a friend.

Belgium has arrested two former detainees of Guantanamo prison on charges of terrorism, saying the men are suspected of seeking recruits to fight in Syria, the federal prosecutor's office said on Friday.

Belgium was on high alert today after two suspected jihadists were killed in a police raid, while German and French police made fresh arrests to put Europe on edge a week after the Islamist attacks in Paris.

Federal prosecutors said on Tuesday that 11 suspects have been detained in an anti-terror sweep in Belgium, the Netherlands and Germany.Those targeted in the sweeps were suspected of planning a possible attack in Belgium or of involvement in recruiting for an alleged Chechen terror organization, Belgian officials said. Seven were detained in Belgiu...

An Indian national with addresses in the UK and Belgium has been arrested in London by Scotland Yard on an extradition warrant from the US, it emerged as part of a UK-US coordinated action targeting terrorism financing.

The knifeman who fatally stabbed a Brussels police officer before being shot and arrested was already on a watch list maintained by Belgium's terrorism monitoring agency, federal prosecutors said Friday.

Belgium on Tuesday charged four people with involvement in terrorism after 15 early morning raids in the cities of Ghent, Antwerp and Deinze, the federal prosecutor's office said.

Belgium arrested two people and charged them with "participating in activities of a terrorist group", federal prosecutors said on Saturday, part of wide-ranging investigations following the deadly attacks in Paris and Brussels that have been claimed by ISIS.

The arrest of Paris attacks suspect Mohamed Abrini in raids linked to the deadly Brussels airport and metro bombings highlighted Saturday the links between the Islamic State jihadists behind Belgium and France's worst terror outrages.

Belgian police arrested three more people on Friday as investigations into Tuesday's suicide bombings by ISIS terrorists in Brussels threw up more links to killings in Paris last year.

A man arrested near Paris suspected of plotting an attack on France was convicted in Belgium in July along with Abdelhamid Abaaoud, the ringleader of the November 13 attacks on the French capital, police sources said today.

Belgian police were holding five people early Friday over an alleged New Year plot in Brussels and also arrested a 10th suspect over last month's attacks in Paris.

A man was arrested during a search of a house in Brussels on Wednesday, federal prosecutors said today, making him the 10th person to be held in Belgium over the militant attacks in Paris which killed 130 people in November.

Belgian security forces made more than a dozen arrests in a series of raids across the capital on Sunday night as they hunted down suspected Islamic State militants, but said sweeping security measures would be kept in place as the major suspect from the Paris attacks remained at large.

A man arrested today during a police assault on the northern Paris suburb of Saint-Denis told AFP he had lent his apartment to two people from Belgium as a favour to a friend.

Belgium has arrested two former detainees of Guantanamo prison on charges of terrorism, saying the men are suspected of seeking recruits to fight in Syria, the federal prosecutor's office said on Friday.

Belgium was on high alert today after two suspected jihadists were killed in a police raid, while German and French police made fresh arrests to put Europe on edge a week after the Islamist attacks in Paris.

Federal prosecutors said on Tuesday that 11 suspects have been detained in an anti-terror sweep in Belgium, the Netherlands and Germany.Those targeted in the sweeps were suspected of planning a possible attack in Belgium or of involvement in recruiting for an alleged Chechen terror organization, Belgian officials said. Seven were detained in Belgiu...