November 2015 Paris attacks

German authorities in Dresden on Thursday said they had arrested an unnamed 39-year-old Bosnian in connection with the Islamist terrorist attacks in Paris in 2015 that killed 130 people.

Bosnian media have, however, named the suspect as Adis Abaz, from the Bosnian town of Zenica, who in 2011 was sentenced to two-and-a-half years in jail for smuggling drugs and military equipment.

Belgian authorities have charged a Belgian man with providing arms to the attackers who carried out the attacks in Paris in November 2015, reported Reuters. 

"The person was taken in for questioning before Christmas. The matter concerns the provision of arms," a spokesman for Belgian federal prosecutors said on Wednesday.

A five-year-old Belgian-Moroccan girl, who had been abducted by his father and taken to Syria in 2017, has finally returned home 1.5 years later, Turkish local media has reported.

Police have shot dead a gunman who killed two people and injured three others in a hostage-taking at a supermarket in the town of Trèbes, near Carcassonne in southern France, reported the Guardian. 

Police union official Yves Lefebvre confirmed the suspect was shot dead by police.

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.

Federal Prosecutor Kathleen Grosjean indicated on Monday that she would ask for a maximum 20-year imprisonment sentence against Salah Abdeslam and Sofien Ayari, Brussels Timesreported.

The sole surviving suspect from the 2015 Paris terror attacks has gone on trial at a Belgian court over the gun fight that led to his arrest, according to BBC. 

Salah Abdeslam was captured in Brussels four months after the attacks.

The charges he faces are not related to events in Paris but to a shootout with police while on the run in Belgium.

France, still on alert against militant Islamist attacks, paid tribute on Monday to 130 people killed when gunmen and suicide bombers attacked Paris two years ago, Reuters reported. 

France will extend checks at borders with fellow Schengen members until April 30, the interior ministry said Thursday, citing the "persistent" terror threat to prolong controls in place since the November 2015 Paris attacks.

Two inmates in a French prison have been placed under formal investigation days before their expected release from jail on suspicion of plotting attacks, a judicial source said on Tuesday, quoted by Reuters.