Suicide Bomb Attacks In Brussels

Salah Abdeslam, the sole surviving suspect in the November 2015 Paris attacks, has been formally charged in connection with the Brussels suicide bombings months later, federal prosecutors said Monday.

Belgian prosecutors said Thursday they were looking for further suspects in an emerging terror investigation and feared a possible fresh attack as the country remained on high security alert.

A year after ISIS suicide bombers killed 32 people in Brussels, Belgian authorities say much remains unclear about who ordered the attacks, even if those who staged them are either dead or in jail.

Brussels airport is partially reopening its departure hall today, about six weeks after ISIS suicide bombers killed 16 people there in blasts that gutted parts of the building.

The departure hall at Brussels airport, hit in March by a deadly double suicide bombing claimed by the ISIS group, will partly reopen on Sunday, the management said.

Brussels' Maelbeek metro station, which was hit by one of the ISIS suicide bombings a month ago that killed 32 people, will reopen on Monday, transport officials said.

Key Paris attacks suspect Salah Abdeslam was charged Thursday with attempted murder over a deadly shootout with police in Brussels a week before the suicide bombings in the Belgian capital, his lawyer and prosecutors said.

Paris attacks suspect Mohamed Abrini was charged on Saturday with "terrorist murders" and confessed he was the man in the hat seen with the suicide bombers at Brussels airport, Belgian prosecutors said.

Belgian police arrested three more people on Friday as investigations into Tuesday's suicide bombings by ISIS terrorists in Brussels threw up more links to killings in Paris last year.

From Belgians to Americans, Britons, Germans and Indians, the suicide bombings in Brussels on Tuesday left casualties from more than 40 countries.

Hours after suicide bombers struck Brussels on Tuesday, a man assaulted the lawyer for their suspected accomplice Salah Abdeslam in his office in the city, defence counsel Sven Mary told Le Soir newspaper.

Two brothers who carried out suicide bombings in Brussels this week were known to US government agencies before the attacks, according to two sources familiar with the matter.

Belgian police were today hunting for a "third man" filmed with two ISIS suicide bombers at Brussels Airport as evidence piled up that the same jihadist network was involved in the deadly Paris attacks last November.

One of the attackers in the Brussels suicide bombings, Ibrahim El Bakraoui, was deported twice from Turkey last year, in July and August, a Turkish government official said today.

One of the attackers in the Brussels suicide bombings was deported last year from Turkey, and Belgium subsequently ignored a warning that the man was a terrorist, Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan said on Wednesday.

Salah Abdeslam, the sole surviving suspect in the November 2015 Paris attacks, has been formally charged in connection with the Brussels suicide bombings months later, federal prosecutors said Monday.

Belgian prosecutors said Thursday they were looking for further suspects in an emerging terror investigation and feared a possible fresh attack as the country remained on high security alert.

A year after ISIS suicide bombers killed 32 people in Brussels, Belgian authorities say much remains unclear about who ordered the attacks, even if those who staged them are either dead or in jail.

Brussels airport is partially reopening its departure hall today, about six weeks after ISIS suicide bombers killed 16 people there in blasts that gutted parts of the building.

The departure hall at Brussels airport, hit in March by a deadly double suicide bombing claimed by the ISIS group, will partly reopen on Sunday, the management said.

Brussels' Maelbeek metro station, which was hit by one of the ISIS suicide bombings a month ago that killed 32 people, will reopen on Monday, transport officials said.

Key Paris attacks suspect Salah Abdeslam was charged Thursday with attempted murder over a deadly shootout with police in Brussels a week before the suicide bombings in the Belgian capital, his lawyer and prosecutors said.

Paris attacks suspect Mohamed Abrini was charged on Saturday with "terrorist murders" and confessed he was the man in the hat seen with the suicide bombers at Brussels airport, Belgian prosecutors said.

Belgian police arrested three more people on Friday as investigations into Tuesday's suicide bombings by ISIS terrorists in Brussels threw up more links to killings in Paris last year.

From Belgians to Americans, Britons, Germans and Indians, the suicide bombings in Brussels on Tuesday left casualties from more than 40 countries.

Hours after suicide bombers struck Brussels on Tuesday, a man assaulted the lawyer for their suspected accomplice Salah Abdeslam in his office in the city, defence counsel Sven Mary told Le Soir newspaper.

Two brothers who carried out suicide bombings in Brussels this week were known to US government agencies before the attacks, according to two sources familiar with the matter.

Belgian police were today hunting for a "third man" filmed with two ISIS suicide bombers at Brussels Airport as evidence piled up that the same jihadist network was involved in the deadly Paris attacks last November.

One of the attackers in the Brussels suicide bombings, Ibrahim El Bakraoui, was deported twice from Turkey last year, in July and August, a Turkish government official said today.

One of the attackers in the Brussels suicide bombings was deported last year from Turkey, and Belgium subsequently ignored a warning that the man was a terrorist, Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan said on Wednesday.