The woman who tipped police to the Islamic State commander of the November 13 Paris attacks says he told her he entered the Paris region among a multinational group of 90 extremists still scattered in the area.

Two people have been arrested in Belgium on suspicion of planning imminent attacks in Brussels, the federal prosecutor’s office said.

France’s Senate has voted to extend a state of emergency for three months after last week’s deadly attacks.

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France wants to unite with the US and Russia in a grand coalition dedicated to fighting Islamic State (IS), French president Francois Hollande has said.

A massive police operation in the Brussels neighbourhood of Molenbeek has ended without any injuries.

French police have released three of the 12 suspects arrested in an anti-terror sweep following the attacks in Paris by Islamic extremists that killed 17 people and put Europe on high alert.

Widening a European counter-terrorism dragnet, Greek authorities detained four terrorism suspects today, including a man believed to be the ringleader of a Belgian jihadi cell.