November 2015 Paris attacks

Brussels is on high alert following the explosions occurred in capital’s airport and metro station killing at least 23 people.

As it was brought to light, Belgian authorities had advanced knowledge of the terrorist attacks in Brussels, but they did not know when and where they would take place.

At least 26 people have been reported dead by different sources following the blasts at Zaventem Airport and the Maelbeek metro station in Brussels.

As many as 136 are described as heavily wounded.

Public broadcaster RBTF cites prosecuting authorities, according to which 11 people have lost their lives in the Zaventem explosions.

At least 34 people were killed in bombing attacks by the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) on Brussels' airport and the metro in the Belgian capital on March 22, triggering security alerts across Europe and global expressions of support. 

A series of explosions ripped through Brussels airport and a metro train on on March 22, killing around 35 people and injuring more than 200 in the latest attacks to rock Europe.

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. 

The prime surviving suspect for the Nov. 13, 2015 Paris attacks planned to blow himself up at a sports stadium with fellow Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) militants but changed his mind, he told Belgian investigators on March 19. 

Salah Abdeslam, chief suspect in last year's November 13 terrorist attacks in Paris, had planned to blow himself up at Stade de France but changed his mind.

Abdeslam admitted this during interrogation by Belgian investigators on Saturday, a day after his detention in the Brussels neigbourhood of Molenbeek on Friday.

Salah Abdeslam, suspected of involvement in the deadly November 13 attacks in Paris, has been arrested in a raid in Brussels, international media report.

Abdeslam, 26, has been wounded in the leg during an operation in the Molenbeek area in Brussels.

The jihadist attacks in November claimed the lives of 130 people.

Paris attacks suspect Salah Abdeslam has been wounded in the leg and arrested in a police raid in the Molenbeek area of Brussels.

“We got him,” the Belgian secretary of state for asylum and migration tweeted, confirming reports of Belgian media that claimed that Abdeslam had been caught alive.

The anti-terrorist operation in the Belgian capital, which began on Tuesday, is continuing on Wednesday.

Belgian authorities in cooperation with French police are conducting a manhunt for suspects linked to last year's November 13 terrorist attacks in Paris.