List of Belgium articles
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Live-Blog: The World Reacts to Deadly Brussels Attacks
Read along as Foreign Policy tracks the aftermath of terrorist attacks in Belgium.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Deadly Blasts Shock Brussels After Islamic State Militant’s Arrest
As many as 31 are reportedly killed in bombings across Belgium's capital in deadly proof that threat of terror has not abated.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Meet the ‘Lawyer of Villains’ Defending the Paris Attacker
If there's anyone in Belgium prepared to take on such a complicated case, it's likely Sven Mary.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Capture of a Paris Ringleader Could Lead to Intelligence Bonanza
Authorities will press Salah Abdeslam for information on imminent threats to Europe -- and information about the Islamic State plots attacks far from its Syrian headquarters.
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European Commissioner for Competition, Margrethe Vestager. Meet the Woman Leading Europe’s War Against Google, Gazprom, and Apple
Margrethe Vestager, the EU’s antitrust czar, is going after some of the world’s biggest companies — and trying to redefine the 21st-century economy.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Can Europe Stand Up to Its Own Strongmen?
Eastern Europe is backsliding on democracy — and Brussels isn’t doing anything to stop it.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Europe’s Baller Bank Notes Are Fueling Terrorism
When it’s this easy to stuff a briefcase with 1 million euros, you’ve got a problem.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 The Islamic State’s Plot to Build a Radioactive ‘Dirty Bomb’
The jihadist group appears to have been looking for nuclear materials in Belgium.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Terror Fears Mute New Year’s Cheer
As the world’s metropolises prepare to bid the year farewell on Thursday, some of them are too afraid to celebrate.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Anti-Terror Raids Are Not the Best Time to Host Orgies at Police Stations
Belgian authorities are investigating whether police and soldiers used the country's terror lockdown to participate in group sex.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 After Mocking Holocaust, French Comedian Gets 2 Months in Belgian Jail
A French comic was sentenced Wednesday to two months in prison in Belgium for anti-semitic comments he made in 2012. But similar charges haven't stopped him before.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Belgian Government Warns of ‘Imminent Threat’ in Brussels
The government has raised its terror alert to the highest level based on intelligence that the capital is at risk for an attack "like the one that happened in Paris."
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Alleged Paris Attacks Mastermind Declared Dead as France Warns of Chemical Attacks
The alleged mastermind behind Friday's attacks in Paris has been confirmed dead, but European officials warn that other terrorist cells remain a threat.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 An ‘Islamist Pit Stop’ in the Heart of the EU
How inequality and government dysfunction combined to turn the small Brussels neighborhood of Molenbeek into a hotbed for terrorist activity.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Alleged Paris Mastermind: Belgian Police ‘Let Me Go’
In February, the man who allegedly plotted Friday's deadly attacks in Paris bragged that Belgian authorities let him slip between their fingers.