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2015 Paris terror attacks: Suspect Salah Abdeslam justifies killings in rare statement to investigators, say reports
•Salah Abdeslam recorded a statement in which he parroted the propaganda of Islamist extremist groups such as Islamic State, which claimed responsibility for the 2015 Paris attacks.
Belgian court sentences Paris attacks suspect Salah Abdeslam to 20 years in prison on terror charges
•A Belgian court on Monday sentenced the sole surviving suspect in the Paris attacks, Salah Abdeslam, to 20 years in prison on terror charges over a bloody gun battle with police in Brussels days before his capture in 2016.
Belgian court to pronounce its verdict on Paris attacks suspect Salah Abdeslam on 23 April
•A Belgian court said it will give its verdict on 23 April in the trial of Paris attacks suspect Salah Abdeslam over a shootout in Brussels that led to his capture.
FIFA World Cup 2018 qualifiers: Moroccan fans in Brussels riot after national team seals Russia spot
•Brussels has a big Moroccan population, many living in the Molenbeek district, which came to international prominence as the home and hideout of planners of the terror attacks in Paris in 2015 and in Brussels last year.
Manchester terror attack: British troops deployed at strategic sites, country on 'critical' terror alert, says Theresa May
•Here is what we know so far about the Manchester Arena attack, the deadliest in Britain since 2005.
A year on, France remembers 130 killed in Paris attacks; Sting reopens Bataclan concert hall
•Hollande is also unveiling plaques honouring the victims at the bars and restaurants in Paris and the Bataclan concert hall, which reopened on Saturday night with a concert by British pop star Sting.
World Cup qualifiers: A year after Paris attacks, war and terror overshadow football
•From poppies and black armbands to brutally graphic nightmares caused by terrorist carnage, Friday's World Cup qualifiers will be sobering as well as raucous.
Paris attacks: Lawyers will no longer defend main suspect Salah Abdeslam
•Lawyers for the main suspect in the Paris attacks, Salah Abdeslam, said that they will no longer defend him, speaking during a TV interview on Wednesday.
UN: Islamic State studied the 26/11 Mumbai attacks to 'maximise confusion and casualties'
•Islamic State terrorists had "studied" the 26/11 Mumbai terror attack and similar "active shooter scenarios" to maximise confusion and casualties before hitting multiple locations in Paris in November, UN member- states have said
Al-Qaeda 2.0? Meet Abu Mus’ab al-Suri and his grand strategy for the Islamic State
Abhijnan Rej •There is a remarkable link between Abu Mus’ab al-Suri's strategic theory — to which Al-Qaeda never quite warmed up — and the relatively-later phenomenon of the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria that morphed into the IS we know today