Law enforcement in Belgium

The trial of Salah Abdeslam resumed in Belgium yesterday, but the last surviving Paris attacks suspect was absent after he refused to return to court.

Paris attacks suspect Salah Abdeslam is now willing to be extradited to France, his lawyer has said.

The news, reported by AFP came after Abdeslam had been insisting he would fight the extradition request.

Abdeslam was captured in a special operation in Brussels last week. Some sources suggest  the deadly attacks in Brussels on Tuesday are linked to his arrest.

According to the Belgian Federal prosecutor, Frederic Van Leeuw Brahim El Bakraoui had dumped a laptop in a rubbish bin just before he carried out his attack at the metro station in Brussels. Newspaper ‘Le Soir’ reported that the laptop contained audio excerpt where the suicide bomber can be heard saying he did not want to be imprisoned like Salah Abdeslam, who was arrested last week in Paris.

Belgian newspaper DH reports that the third bombing suspect who fled the airport on Monday, Najim Laachraoui, has been arrested in Anderlecht.

The man shown at the photo below standing next to the two arrested attackers and wearing a hat is Nazim Lachraoui. The Belgian authorities arrested him on

Wednesday morning at a pizza restaurant, after launching a manhunt.

The prime surviving suspect in the Paris attacks may have been plotting more operations with the help of a weapons cache and a network of associates, Belgium's Foreign Minister Didier Reynders said on March 20. 

A fourth person has been charged with terror offences in Belgium in connection with the November 13 deadly attacks in Paris, SkyNews reported on Monday, citing police sources.

Salah Abdeslam, 26, is the eighth man involved in the deadly Paris attacks that left 130 dead. He is believed to be in Brussels where police are searching for his whereabouts. He has already spoken to three friends via Skype in an effort to get back to Syria.

Just a week after Europe was gripped with shock following the multiple Paris attacks, Belgium raised the alert status for Brussels, its capital, to its highest level. The metro was shut and the public were warned to avoid crowds because of a “serious and imminent” threat of expected attack.

German police arrested two women and a man in connection with Friday's attacks in Paris, which had claimed the lives of 129 people and left hundreds injured.

The arrests were carried out in the town of Alsdorf, northeast of the city of Aachen, Deutsche Welle reports.

Special units were deployed to conduct the operation, with the arrests occurring at a job centre.

The construction of a controversial 2,600-kilometer road project to connect highland areas in eight provinces in northern Turkey has been restarted after a 42-day halt despite vociferous opposition from locals and environmental advocates, as well as the lack of an official permit and an ongoing case against the project.