John Kerry pledges more US help to tackle militants

US secretary of state John Kerry has pledged more US help to Belgium and the EU in tackling Islamist militant threats. 

Kerry also dismissed criticism of Belgium’s failure to track IS militants before the attacks as a tendency to “jump to conclusions”, but said there was room for improving anti-terrorism co-operation among EU countries.

“The United States is praying and grieving with you for the loved ones of those cruelly taken from us, including Americans, and for the many who were injured in these despicable attacks”, Kerry said after meetings with Belgian prime minister Charles Michel, foreign minister Didier Reynders and Jean-Claude Juncker, head of the EU executive body in Brussels.