November 2015 Paris attacks

Belgian police killed a suspect armed with an assault rifle after four officers were wounded on March 15 in a raid on a Brussels apartment linked to investigations into November's Islamist attacks in Paris, prosecutors said.

Belgian and French police launched together a huge manhunt for two suspects in Brussels after gunmen opened fire wounding four officers, during an anti-terror operation linked to the Paris attacks.

One suspect has been shot dead in a counter-terrorism raid in Brussels linked to last year's terror attacks in Paris in which 130 people were killed, the BBC reported on Tuesday.

As many as two other suspects are reportedly on the run after Belgian police raided an apartment in Forest, a south Brussels suburb, according to the BBC.

Shots have been fired at Brussels police during a house raid in the southern suburb of Forest, in Brussels.

According to local media, gun fires were heard in an apartment.

A police officer was injured during the raid, though it was unclear whether he was hit by gunfire, a police spokeswoman said, as cited by Reuters.

The Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) group has honed the ability to launch global attacks and is set to focus more on Europe following the Paris massacre, the chief of the EU police agency Europol said Jan. 25.

A video published on Jan. 24 by the media centre of Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) purported to show images and last statements of nine of the people who took part in the Paris attacks that killed 130 people on Nov. 13.

With a new year comes new expectations about our region. This may be U.S. President Barack Obama's last year in office, but the Middle East will be higher on the agendas of other leaders. French President François Hollande tops the list.

Belgian police have found three belts for possible use in suicide attacks, traces of explosives and a fingerprint of wanted Paris attacks suspect Salah Abdeslam at a Brussels flat, prosecutors said Jan. 8.

The Belgian prosecutors investigating the November 2015 deadly attacks in Paris have discovered a fingerprint belonging to fugitive Salah Abdeslam, together with traces of explosives and suicide belts, in a flat in Brussels.

Authorities in most capitals of the world fear of terrorist attacks during New Year’s Eve celebrations and have increased police presence in the cities’ streets to prevent any attack.