List of Belgium articles
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French troops patrol at the international airport of the French Riviera city of Nice on March 22, 2016. Belgium's neighbours France, Germany and the Netherlands tightened border security after the attacks on Brussels airport and metro system that left at least 26 dead. / AFP / VALERY HACHE (Photo credit should read VALERY HACHE/AFP/Getty Images) Live-Blog: The World Reacts to Deadly Brussels Attacks
Read along as Foreign Policy tracks the aftermath of terrorist attacks in Belgium.
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A victim receives first aid by rescuers, on March 22, 2016 near Maalbeek metro station in Brussels, after a blast at this station near the EU institutions caused deaths and injuries. AFP PHOTO / EMMANUEL DUNAND / AFP / EMMANUEL DUNAND (Photo credit should read EMMANUEL DUNAND/AFP/Getty Images) Deadly Blasts Shock Brussels After Islamic State Militant’s Arrest
As many as 31 are reportedly killed in bombings across Belgium's capital in deadly proof that threat of terror has not abated.
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Sven Mary, Belgian lawyer of Paris attacks suspect Salah Abdeslam, talks to the media outside the building of the Federal Police in Brussels, on March 19, 2016. Top Paris attacks suspect Salah Abdeslam, who was captured in a dramatic raid in Brussels, was to be questioned by Belgian police on March 19, 2016 ahead of his speedy transfer to France. Following his release from hospital where he was treated for a slight gunshot wound to the leg sustained during his arrest, Abdeslam was to be quizzed over his role in the November 13 massacre which killed 130 people and was claimed by the Islamic State (IS) group. / AFP / Belga / Aurore Belot / Belgium OUT (Photo credit should read AURORE BELOT/AFP/Getty Images) Meet the ‘Lawyer of Villains’ Defending the Paris Attacker
If there's anyone in Belgium prepared to take on such a complicated case, it's likely Sven Mary.
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Belgian police forces stand guard in a street during a police action in the Molenbeek-Saint-Jean district in Brussels, on March 18, 2016. A police operation was underway on March 18, in the Brussels area home to key Paris attacks suspect Salah Abdeslam whose fingerprints were found in an apartment raided this week, the federal prosecutor's office said. AFP PHOTO / JOHN THYS / AFP / JOHN THYS (Photo credit should read JOHN THYS/AFP/Getty Images) Capture of a Paris Ringleader Could Lead to Intelligence Bonanza
Authorities will press Salah Abdeslam for information on imminent threats to Europe -- and information about the Islamic State plots attacks far from its Syrian headquarters.
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European Commissioner for Competition, Margrethe Vestager. Meet the Woman Leading Europe’s War Against Google, Gazprom, and Apple
Margrethe Vestager, the EU’s antitrust czar, is going after some of the world’s biggest companies — and trying to redefine the 21st-century economy.
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GettyImages-488754365 crop Can Europe Stand Up to Its Own Strongmen?
Eastern Europe is backsliding on democracy — and Brussels isn’t doing anything to stop it.
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Tett Final Flat Europe’s Baller Bank Notes Are Fueling Terrorism
When it’s this easy to stuff a briefcase with 1 million euros, you’ve got a problem.
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LOS ANGELES - AUGUST 5: Los Angeles police officers wearing contamination suits secure the area following the explosion of a "dirty bomb" during a simulated attack at a dock at the Port of Los Angeles on August 5, 2004 in Los Angeles, California. In the drill's scenario, a "dirty bomb" smuggled into the port in a shipping container exploded as a bus was driving by, releasing a plume of radioactivity. More than 850 civilian and military personnel representing more than 60 government agencies, community based and private-sector organizations are participating in the terror response drill, "Determined Promise 2004". (Photo by David McNew/Getty Images) The Islamic State’s Plot to Build a Radioactive ‘Dirty Bomb’
The jihadist group appears to have been looking for nuclear materials in Belgium.
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Fireworks light up the sky over Sydney's Opera House (L) and Harbour Bridge during New Year celebrations in Sydney on January 1, 2016. AFP PHOTO / Saeed KHAN / AFP / SAEED KHAN (Photo credit should read SAEED KHAN/AFP/Getty Images) Terror Fears Mute New Year’s Cheer
As the world’s metropolises prepare to bid the year farewell on Thursday, some of them are too afraid to celebrate.
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GettyImages-498446490 Anti-Terror Raids Are Not the Best Time to Host Orgies at Police Stations
Belgian authorities are investigating whether police and soldiers used the country's terror lockdown to participate in group sex.
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French controversial comic Dieudonne M'bala M'bala (C) arrives at the Paris courthouse on March 12, 2015, for the trial of French far-right writer Alain Soral (L), for posting a picture of himself on the internet taken in Berlin in front of the Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe, while gesturing the "quenelle", a gesture viewed as anti-Semitic. The gesture, invented by French controversial comic Dieudonne M'bala M'bala, is viewed as anti-semitic, while Dieudonne and his supporters claim it is anti-establishment. AFP PHOTO / LOIC VENANCE (Photo credit should read LOIC VENANCE/AFP/Getty Images) After Mocking Holocaust, French Comedian Gets 2 Months in Belgian Jail
A French comic was sentenced Wednesday to two months in prison in Belgium for anti-semitic comments he made in 2012. But similar charges haven't stopped him before.
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BRUSSELS, BELGIUM - NOVEMBER 21: Belgian security forces patrol on the streets as the Belgian authorities raised the terror alert to the level 4, highest level warning of an "imminent threat", in Brussels, Belgium on November 21, 2015. Authorities warn the people keeping away from crowded areas as well as subway stations temporarily restricted for entrance. (Photo by Dursun Aydemir/Anadolu Agency/Getty Images) Belgian Government Warns of ‘Imminent Threat’ in Brussels
The government has raised its terror alert to the highest level based on intelligence that the capital is at risk for an attack "like the one that happened in Paris."
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SAINT-DENIS, FRANCE - NOVEMBER 18: Forensics of the French police are seen on 'Rue du Corbillon' in Saint-Denis, on November 18, 2015 in Saint-Denis, France. French Police special forces raided an apartment, hunting those behind the attacks that claimed 129 lives in the French capital five days ago. At least one person was killed in an apartment targeted during the operation aimed at the suspected mastermind of the attacks, Belgian Abdelhamid Abaaoud. At least five police officers have been wounded in the shootout. (Photo by Marc Piasecki/Getty Images) Alleged Paris Attacks Mastermind Declared Dead as France Warns of Chemical Attacks
The alleged mastermind behind Friday's attacks in Paris has been confirmed dead, but European officials warn that other terrorist cells remain a threat.
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---BELGIUM OUT--- This photo taken on November 16, 2015 shows Christmas lights in the municipality of Sint-Jans-Molenbeek (Molenbeek-Saint-Jean) in Brussel. During the weekend searches were carried out and multiple people were arrested in relation to the November 13 terrorist attacks in Paris. Islamic State jihadists claimed a series of coordinated attacks by gunmen and suicide bombers in Paris that killed at least 129 people in scenes of carnage at a concert hall, restaurants and the national stadium. AFP PHOTO / BELGA / JAMES ARTHUR GEKIERE (Photo credit should read JAMES ARTHUR GEKIERE/AFP/Getty Images) An ‘Islamist Pit Stop’ in the Heart of the EU
How inequality and government dysfunction combined to turn the small Brussels neighborhood of Molenbeek into a hotbed for terrorist activity.
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Screen Shot 2015-11-16 at 12.27.28 PM Alleged Paris Mastermind: Belgian Police ‘Let Me Go’
In February, the man who allegedly plotted Friday's deadly attacks in Paris bragged that Belgian authorities let him slip between their fingers.
