Officials: Group that hit Brussels planned 2nd France attack
The extremists who struck Brussels last month and killed 32 people initially planned to launch a second assault on France in the wake of the November attacks in Paris, authorities said Sunday.
Riot attacks shrine honoring Brussels victims
Belgian riot police clashed Sunday with hundreds of right-wing hooligans at a temporary shrine honoring victims of the Brussels suicide bombings, as investigators launched fresh anti-terror raids, taking four more people into custody.
State Department: 2 more Americans are Brussels victims
Two more Americans have been identified as killed in the attacks on Brussels, the State Department confirmed Sunday, bringing to four the total number of U.S. citizens confirmed as victims.
US teen describes surviving Boston and Belgium attacks
An American teenager wounded in the Brussels Airport attack is lucky to be alive. And he knows it.
Experts: Belgium often comes up short in preventing attacks
Belgium has come up short in its efforts to prevent extremist attacks time and again, experts say — failing to coordinate intelligence, investigate suspects and control its borders.
Official: 2 Americans died in Brussels attacks
At least two American citizens have been confirmed killed in this week’s attacks in Brussels, a U.S. official said Friday.
American Muslims defy Sen. Ted Cruz’s call for surveillance
A few miles from Disneyland is a place most tourists never see. The signs along the thoroughfare suddenly switch to Arabic script advertising hookah shops, Middle Eastern sweets and halal meat.
Cruz’s comments after attack criticized by Muslims
Presidential candidate Ted Cruz’s call for increased surveillance in Muslim neighborhoods following the deadly bombings in Brussels drew sharp rebukes from Muslim Americans and civil rights groups, which panned the Republican’s proposal as unconstitutional and counterproductive.
Fearing copycat terrorist attacks, US officials step up security
The Obama administration stepped up security at major transit hubs across the country after Tuesday’s airport and subway bombings in Brussels, as top U.S. intelligence officials warned of the risk for copycat attacks at home.
Brussels attack is 2nd major bombing for Utah teen
Surviving a major bombing is the extraordinary — and repeated — situation that one Utah teen can live to tell about.
Islamic State claims deadly bombings in Brussels
Islamic extremists struck Tuesday in the heart of Europe, killing at least 34 people and wounding scores of others in back-to-back bombings of the Brussels airport and subway that again laid bare the continent’s vulnerability to suicide squads.
Explosions rock Brussels; at least 31 reported dead
Bombs exploded at the Brussels airport and one of the city’s metro stations today, killing at least 31 people and wounding dozens, as a European capital was again locked down amid heightened security threats.
Brussels under serious threat after Paris attacks
Heavily armed police and soldiers patrolled key intersections, subways were closed and many stores shut their doors in Belgium’s capital Saturday as the government warned of a threat of Paris-style attacks.
Multimillion-dollar diamond heist in Brussels
Eight masked gunmen made a hole in a security fence at Brussels’ international airport, drove onto the tarmac and snatched some $50 million worth of diamonds from the hold of a Swiss-bound plane without firing a shot, authorities said today.
MUW honors students learn from month in Belgium
Students in the Ina Gordy Honors College at Mississippi University for Women recently returned from a month-long study abroad trip to Brussels, Belgium.