A lone attacker tried to smash his car through the gates of an army barracks in southern Belgium and fled in the vehicle after shots were fired, Belgium’s defence minister said.

A radical Islamic group that recruited youngsters to fight in Syria was a terrorist organisation that wanted to violently overthrow democracy and replace it with strict sharia law, a Belgian court has ruled.

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.

Soldiers have fanned out to guard possible terror targets across Belgium, including some buildings in the Jewish quarter of the port city of Antwerp.

Possible links between jihadist cells in a number of European countries were being investigated by security and intelligence forces following about 17 arrests in Belgium’s largest ever counter-terrorism operation.

IT is natural to hope that most people we meet on our journey through this ever-changing world are decent and humane and that they do not represent a threat of any kind. 

Thirteen people have been detained in Belgium and two in France in an anti-terror sweep following a gunfight in which two suspected terrorists were killed.

Belgian authorities have said they thwarted a major attack by just hours when they killed two suspects in a shoot-out and arrested a third in a huge anti-terror operation that stretched into the night.

Alert status raised to second highest level amid fears ‘operational cell’ about to mount major attack

Belgian security forces killed two terror suspects in a fierce shoot-out in the eastern city of Verviers foiling a major attack against police buildings.

Police have detained a man in eastern Belgium after a dinner guest found the bodies of the host’s wife and stepson in a deep freeze, authorities said today.

BELGIAN police found a missing nine-year-old boy alive, but tied up and gagged in a field near the town where he went missing.

Police said today they had found a missing nine-year old boy alive, but tied up and gagged in a field near the town where he went missing.

Belgian police said they mobilised a mass search for a missing nine-year-old boy today near a city where two young girls were abducted and killed last month.