LATEST PARIS ATTACKS NEWS AND VIDEO UPDATES

Two French music festivals cancel Eagles Of Death Metal shows following singer’s comments that ‘Muslims were celebrating in the streets’ during the Bataclan massacre

20/05/16 21:32

The French music festivals cancelled performances by the band Eagles of Death Metal, which was onstage during the Bataclan massacre in Paris, after frontman Jesse Hughes (left) blamed a Muslim 'conspiracy' and claimed he saw Muslims 'celebrating in the streets' during the attack. The rock band were playing a gig at the Paris venue (right) when three ISIS gunmen burst in and slaughtered 89 people. The singer, who is a public supporter of Donald Trump, previously insisted that security guards at the venue had prior knowledge of the attack. ...read

Bataclan massacre victim's ex-girlfriend tells how they 'played dead' as ISIS gunmen roamed the theatre before he died in her arms after being shot

19/05/16 17:29

Nick Alexander, 35, from Colchester, Essex, pictured, was among 89 people who were killed when terrorists opened fire in the city's Bataclan concert hall on November 13 last year.

Isis has taken advantage of Europe’s open borders to plant sleeper cells in the UK, Germany and Italy, head of American intelligence warns

18/05/16 14:01

James Clapper (pictured), the Director Of National Intelligence, told reporters Monday in Washington, DC that officials continue to see evidence of plotting on the part of ISIS in these countries.

Belgian security forces spotted Paris terror mastermind posing on Facebook with an ISIS flag three weeks before the massacre – but 'failed to follow it up'

17/05/16 18:30

Although Belgium's national terror threat centre was told about the photo in October, security officials failed to take a closer look, it has been claimed.

Opening of terror trial linked to Paris and Brussels attacks descends into farce after strike by Belgian prison officers means lawyers cannot talk to the defendants

10/05/16 01:58

Seven suspected jihadists were due in the Palais de Justice in Brussels, accused of being part of the group that murdered 162 people with suicide bombs and machine gun fire.

Paris terror suspect Salah Abdeslam is 'behaving well and has not been causing any trouble' say staff at the prison where he is held

04/05/16 21:21

Paris terror attack suspect Salah Abdeslam is 'behaving well' and spends most of time reading and sleeping in his prison cell.

ISIS warn their soldiers are ‘ready to sacrifice themselves’ in latest video featuring children singing jihadi song in French months after deadly Paris attacks

03/05/16 12:26

ISIS have threatened to carry out new terror attacks in a chilling new video featuring a French language song performed by several child soldiers.

Revealed: The French former gym manager who has risen to the very top of ISIS command as reward for overseeing Paris terror attacks

03/05/16 07:55

Abu Suleyman al-Faransi is said to have impressed ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi after presenting him with a blueprint for November's massacre that killed 130 people in the French capital.

ISIS wanted to strike in Britain and Germany on the same day they killed 132 people in Paris

02/05/16 16:01

Ringleaders Abdelhamid Abaaoud and Mohamed Abrini were in Birmingham and London in the months before the November attacks.

The City of Lights dims: Paris drops from top-five romantic destinations rankings for Valentine's Day in wake of the city's terror attacks

29/04/16 18:59

The French capital has fallen from being Brits' second-favourite Valentine's Day hotspot, to their eighth. It ranks behind Amsterdam, Rome, New York, Barcelona, Prague and Reykjavik.

Paris terror suspect Salah Abdeslam is BOOED by radicalised inmates at his prison - because he did not go through with his suicide bombing

28/04/16 19:07

Salah Abdeslam spent his first night in Fleury-Mérogis prison in south Paris on Wednesday. He was arrested over last November's attacks in the French capital which claimed 130 lives.

Horrific new CCTV footage shows the moment Paris suicide bomber blew himself up inside busy restaurant on November night of carnage that left 130 innocent people dead

26/04/16 12:23

GRAPHIC CONTENT WARNING: The images of the death of Brahim Abdeslam, 31, were captured by CCTV cameras at the Comptoir Voltaire brasserie on November 13 last year.

Brussels airport suicide bomber was an ISIS prison guard: French former hostages identify Islamist who kept watch over them in Syria

22/04/16 17:30

One of the Brussels suicide bombers has been identified as a former ISIS prison guard by a French hostage in Syria. Najim Laachraoui was also involved in the Paris attacks.

Special Forces soldiers guard footballing dignitaries as the France 2016 European Championships draw is made amid a huge security clampdown in Paris

21/04/16 21:15

A number of soldiers, heavily armed and wearing balaclavas, were seen inside the Palais de Congres in Paris watching over as the draw was made, a month after the terrorist attack.

'ISIS recruiter' arrested in Spain described the Paris attacks as 'an excellent day because his people made Europe tremble' and had wanted to 'join the caliphate in Syria', court hears

21/04/16 19:54

Mohamed Harrak, 26, was asked to testify via video link from a court building in the Majorcan capital Palma where he was taken this morning amid tight security before being remanded in jail.

Salah Abdeslam is charged with attempted murder over a deadly shootout in Brussels with police while he was still hunting ‘the world’s most wanted man’

21/04/16 15:03

An Algerian Islamist suspect was killed and four police officers were wounded in the shooutout, which led to Abdeslam's arrest three days later in Forest, Molenbeek, after a four-month manhunt.

Is this the most tasteless drink promotion ever? Student bar under fire for selling blue, white and red shots called a PARIS BOMB in the wake of the Bataclan terrorist attacks

21/04/16 07:28

The Sheffield bar, called Paris, advertised the drink on their Instagram account (pictured). The bar refused to back down despite a backlash from students speaking out in protest against the name.

Revealed - Bomb-maker behind the Paris and Brussels terrorist attacks was a key member of Jihadi John's beheading gang

19/04/16 12:16

Belgian terrorist Najim Laachraoui, 24, was a key member of the ISIS gang which imprisoned British and American hostages before handing them over to executioner Jihadi John.

UK terror cell was arrested after US code crackers hacked into the phone of 'man in the hat' Brussels terror suspect Mohamed Abrini

17/04/16 12:15

Four men and a woman were held after a device linked to Abrini, 31, was cracked by American investigators. It is believed the phone contained images of several Birmingham landmarks.

MICHAEL BURLEIGH: Even in its death throes, Islamic State will spread its poison

17/04/16 11:59

Having terrified the world with its fierce initial momentum, Islamic State briefly consolidated its sprawling caliphate straddling Iraq and Syria. Two years on, how have things changed?

UK terror cell linked to Man In White and Brussels and Paris jihadis 'planned to attack the London Eye in new atrocity' police fear as five people are arrested across England

16/04/16 17:08

The UK had been the second country that the network wanted to attack, a source said. The dramatic developments came after the arrest of 'man in white' Mohamed Abrini.

Paris and Brussels: The UK Connection - Four men and a woman are held in Britain over terror offences linked to massacres

16/04/16 16:06

Police believe they have smashed a major British terror cell linked to the masterminds of the atrocities in Paris and Brussels after cracking a mobile phone used by one of the attackers.

Calm before the terror: Captured Paris terrorist Salah Abdeslam looks relaxed while he strolls through Brussels in new footage as his brother is sacked from council job after taking five months off SICK

16/04/16 15:38

Strolling through a Brussels market without a care in the world, this is captured Paris terrorist Salah Abdeslam in new footage shot before the attacks on the French capital.

Sajid Javid and Baroness Warsi are named on new ISIS kill list of 'moderate' Muslims

14/04/16 16:32

Business Secretary Sajid Javid, pictured wiuth his wife Laura, and Baroness Sayeeda Warsi have been named as targets in the terror group's glossy propaganda magazine Dabiq.

Brothers 'behind Brussels attacks were also the weapons masterminds for Paris massacre', claims ISIS, as man is arrested in Spain for supplying guns for Charlie Hebdo accomplice

13/04/16 17:29

The latest edition of the group's English-language propaganda magazine Dabiq also states the El Bakraoui brothers personally obtained the weapons and explosives for the Brussels attacks.

Paris and Brussels attack network is a 'supercell' of ISIS extremism with dozens of members moving unnoticed in Europe's criminal underworld

13/04/16 12:07

From Belgium's Molenbeek to Sweden's Malmo, new names are added daily to the list of attackers, hangers-on, and tacit supporters of the cell that killed 130 people in Paris and 32 in Brussels.

Dramatic moment Belgian police arrest three Paris attack suspects at gun point as two more are charged with terrorism-related offences over the Brussels bombings

12/04/16 17:18

Armed police swooped during a daylight raid in Uccle, Brussels as part of continued investigations into the atrocity, which left 130 people dead and hundreds wounded.

Broken Paris bomber on suicide watch: Tired, bedraggled Salah Abdeslam is pictured inside prison for the first time where he is checked eight times an hour and described as a 'model prisoner'

12/04/16 15:03

The first photograph of captured Paris ISIS attacker Salah Abdeslam has emerged showing the failed suicide bomber looking bearded and broken inside a prison in Bruges.

Revealed: Muslim woman prevented second terror attack on Paris by tipping off police about whereabouts of ISIS mastermind

12/04/16 08:04

The woman who gave French police the vital tip-off about the secret hiding place of the mastermind of the Paris attacks has revealed the terrifying moment she met Abdelhamid Abaaoud.

Brussels ISIS terror cell ‘had planned to carry out new massacre at Euro 2016’

11/04/16 11:50

The ISIS terror cell which carried out the Paris and Brussels attacks had intended to target the Euro 2016 football summer tournament in France, it was claimed.

Fears of new European terror attack after Mumbai massacre suspect is arrested in Austria MONTHS after Greek authorities let him in along with Paris suicide bombers

11/04/16 08:28

Muhammad Ghani Usman (pictured), linked to the Mumbai attacks that killed 164 people, and suspected Algerian Isis fighter Adel Haddadi were detained at a refugee centre near Salzburg, Austria.

Terror group which launched Brussels bombings were planning NEW attack on Paris say prosecutors

10/04/16 12:34

Brussels and Paris terror attacks suspect Mohamed Abrini has admitted that he had been planning to carry out a new terror attack on Paris but switched to targeting Brussels due to the police search.

I am the Man in White! Paris attacker Mohamed Abrini admits being bomber who fled Brussels airport massacre - as four are charged over dual atrocities

10/04/16 10:49

Belgium's federal prosecutor said on Saturday that Mohamed Abrini admitted to being the 'man in white' who was seen at Zaventem airport in Brussels on March 22.

Tourism to France increased in 2015 despite Paris terror attacks as government presses ahead with plans to attract 100 million visitors every year

09/04/16 17:57

Government figures show that 84.5 million tourists visited continental France, an increase of 0.9 per cent from 2014 despite the terror attacks in Paris that left 130 people dead.

BREAKING NEWS: Four suspects are CHARGED over terrorist murders in Paris and Brussels attacks

09/04/16 17:35

Mohammed Abrini has been charged with 'terrorist murders' hours after footage emerged showing the moment a man thought to be a suspect in the Paris and Brussels terror attacks was arrested.

iPhone case that can encrypt calls and texts could help terrorists carry out a Paris or Brussels style attack in Britain

06/04/16 10:42

The Vysk device clips to the phone and, with the flick of a switch, can be put into stealth mode to stop hackers from gaining access to its data, but there are worries terrorists could take advantage.

Armed guards introduced on French trains to protect passengers following Paris and Brussels terror

04/04/16 00:52

The guards, who will wear civilian clothes so as not to attract attention, are to patrol some passenger trains in the wake of terror attacks in both Paris and Brussels.

Arrested Paris attacks suspect Salah Abdeslam 'refused to blow himself up because he wanted to SAVE lives', claims his brother

02/04/16 15:27

Mohamed Abdeslam claims that his brother Salah, who was sensationally captured on 18 March, told him that he 'couldn't go through with it.'

ISIS copying 19th century German tactics to wage war on the West: Operatives given a deadline to strike targets... then left to it so 'lone wolves' cannot be tied to commanders

01/04/16 14:47

Invoking the Germany Army's historical strategy of 'Auftragstaktik', the policy helps ISIS carry out attacks abroad when its chain of command is restricted by Western intelligence agencies.

Paris terrorist Salah Abdeslam agrees to turn supergrass for French police… making the world's most wanted man now the No.1 ISIS target

31/03/16 21:54

The 26-year-old, suspected of being the logistics chief behind the deadly Paris terror attacks in November, was captured earlier this month during a raid in Brussels.

Paris attack plot suspect found with arsenal of weapons and explosives is charged as France drops plans to strip terrorists of their citizenship

31/03/16 01:40

French national Reda Kriket has been charged with membership of a terror organisation, after police discovered a cache of assault rifles, handguns and explosives at his home in Paris.

France players prepare to take on Russia in their first game back in Paris since the terror attacks last November

29/03/16 21:55

France take on Russia in their first game back at the Stade de France since November's terrorist attacks in Paris. Les Bleus were photographed meeting fans in the city on Tuesday morning.

Murderers on the dance floor: Terror brothers filmed in Brussels nightclub months before Paris attacks... even though they were already becoming radicalised

28/03/16 17:30

Brahim Abdeslam can be seen with a cigarette in his hand dancing with a blonde woman while his brother Salah dances beside him in the video, filmed in a Brussels club.

Britain on terror alert: 2,000 extra armed police on streets and new SAS unit on 24 hour standby in wake of Brussels attacks

28/03/16 00:25

A 70-strong SAS team nicknamed Blue Thunder will be ready to deploy across the UK in the event of a terror attack while more than 2,000 armed officers will be deployed in major cities.

Arrested at gunpoint: Armed Italian police swoop on Algerian linked to Paris and Brussels terror attacks

27/03/16 18:58

Dramatic pictures show Djamal Eddine Ouali, 40, on his knees after being detained under a European arrest warrant in the southern Italian region of Salerno.

Brussels cancels peace march amid fears ISIS will use it to launch ANOTHER brutal attack as flowers flood the city in memory of those killed in this week's bombings

27/03/16 14:49

Authorities cancelled the march on the Place de la Bourse (pictured) over fears it could not properly police it without drawing resources away from the manhunt for those responsible for the attacks.

Bungling Belgian police knew of Paris bomber Abdeslam's secret hideout for THREE MONTHS but did nothing... while he planned machine gun massacre at 'EASTER'

25/03/16 13:36

A beat officer gave information about the whereabouts of Salah Abdeslam to superiors in December, citing the address he was finally apprehended at, but the report was not passed on.

Fugitive Paris jihadi visited Britain and took pictures of a football stadium four months before his cell attacked the Stade de France during massacre in French capital

25/03/16 11:39

The only Paris terrorist still at large, Mohamed Abrini, visited Britain and took potential reconnaissance pictures of a football stadium. He made the trip in July, just four months before Paris attacks.

The web of terror from Paris to Brussels: How blundering police missed chance after chance to smash network of jihadis who brought carnage to French capital then triggered bloodbath in Belgium

24/03/16 18:06

Belgian authorities have had the names and addresses of nearly 100 suspected Islamic militants weeks before the Paris atrocities. Here we reveal the links of the Molenbeek cell police missed.

'I didn't know about Brussels attacks': Paris terrorist who was captured alive tells court he was unaware of bombings carried out by his ISIS accomplices

24/03/16 15:06

Paris terror suspect Salah Abdeslam claims he 'didn't know' about the Brussels suicide bombings - despite connections to the perpetrators - as he appeared in court in the Belgian capital today.

'We will strike back': Anonymous issues threat to ISIS after latest terror attacks in Belgium that 'killed innocent civilians' and 'attacked our freedom'

23/03/16 21:22

The group unveiled its so-called 'Op Brussels' today in which it vowed to continue 'hacking their websites, shutting down their Twitter accounts and stealing their Bitcoins'

Second airport suicide bomber's brother is medal-winning ATHLETE who represents Belgium in Taekwondo but has disowned terror bombmaker Najim

23/03/16 19:55

Najim Laachraoui - now revealed as the second suicide bomber at Brussels Zaventem Airport - is the younger brother Mourad Laachraoui (pictured), who represents Belgium in Taekwondo.

THIRD brush with terror: American Mormon, 19, left with burns and shrapnel injuries in Brussels attack also survived Boston and Paris bombings

23/03/16 18:14

An American Mormon missionary, Mason Wells, 19, was injured in the Brussels airport terrorist attack after having previously survived the Boston bombing and the Paris attacks.

Donald Trump slams Muslims for failing to report suspicious activity within their own communities but Britain's Home Secretary Theresa May says he's 'plain wrong'

23/03/16 17:30

The US Republican presidential candidate said it was ‘a disgrace’ that a suspect behind last year’s Paris attacks had been found after a long manhunt in an area of Brussels where he lived.

Master bombmaker who posed as migrant and attacked Paris last year is now chief suspect in Belgian atrocity as police swoop on home district

23/03/16 05:26

Police are raiding the neighborhood of the bombmaker thought to be behind November's Paris attacks as experts say he may have designed the explosives that killed at least 34 people.

Pictured: Police remove bags of evidence from flat in Brussels terror district after finding BOMB, Islamic State flag and chemicals in raid

23/03/16 04:34

The disturbing discoveries were made as officers searched properties in the district of Shaerbeek, north-east Brussels, where two Paris suspects are believed to have lived in the wake of the attacks.

ISIS threatens UK with 'harder and more bitter' attack than Brussels as armed police take to Britain's streets after terror group claims responsibility for bombings

22/03/16 23:30

The explosions come just a day after the Belgium Interior Minister warned of possible revenge attacks after the arrest of Paris massacre suspect Salah Abdeslam in the city last week.

Revealed: Terror attack was ‘revenge’ for arrest of Europe’s most wanted man... but was Belgian bloodbath triggered EARLY because fanatics feared Paris jihadi Abdeslam would betray them?

22/03/16 21:55

Europe’s security services feared a terrorist attack since the arrest of Paris failed suicide bomber Salah Abdeslam in the city four days ago as his colleagues feared the net was closing on them.

Take THAT, terrorists! Cartoonists show famous Belgian statue URINATING on ISIS as the internet unites in tribute to the bomb blast victims

22/03/16 20:01

In a stirring sign of mass defiance, thousands have posted images that show the boy from Brussels' Manneken Pis statue - who is depicted urinating into a fountain - relieving himself on ISIS jihadists.

Paris terror suspect 'was planning fresh Brussels attack' when he was caught as it emerges he intends to SUE French prosecutor for revealing he backed out of blowing himself up

22/03/16 11:49

Salah Abdeslam, believed to have originally planned to blow himself up at the Stade de France on November 13, was tracked to the safehouse after four months as Europe's 'most wanted man'.

Dramatic moment world's most wanted terrorist dragged away: ISIS fugitive behind Paris massacre is caught trying to flee his Brussels hideout run past armed police

22/03/16 10:19

Salah Abdeslam was shot in the leg by police commandos and has been captured alive in the district of Molenbeek in the Belgian capital.

Belgium on terror lockdown: Brussels metro closed and people warned to avoid public areas after 'serious and imminent threat' alert over Paris-style ISIS attack

22/03/16 09:29

Brussels has been put into security lockdown after Belgian intelligence received 'precise information' of a planned Paris-style ISIS attack in the capital.

Gunned down: Incredible moment Paris attacker is shot by Belgian police as he tried to flee…and dropped a note as he was hauled to the ground which may hold clues to fresh attacks

22/03/16 08:12

Footage from the arrest of Paris terrorist attacker Salah Abdeslam in Brussels shows the moment he is shot in the leg as he tries to flee police - and dropping a note as he is taken down.

Is this the Paris bomb maker? Police hunt suspect whose DNA was found on suicide vests used in the massacre – as secret report reveals there could be '90 kamikazes' waiting to attack Europe

21/03/16 23:37

Security forces had searched far and wide for prime suspect Salah Abdeslam, who vanished after returning to Brussels, believing ISIS could have spirited him away to Turkey, Syria or Morocco.

Terror mastermind Salah Abdeslam escaped police by hiding in a wardrobe then walked the streets of Brussels freely for weeks before he was captured in sting triggered by a PIZZA delivery

20/03/16 13:42

It is understood that Belgian intelligence services located Salah Abdeslam's hideout after listening in on phone conversations at the funeral of Salah's brother.

Revealed: Accomplice of Paris attacks suspect Abdeslam shot dead in Brussels named as Mohamed Belkaid

19/03/16 16:56

The Algerian man shot dead by a police sniper in a raid in Brussels has been revealed as Mohamed Belkaid, who was reportedly helping Paris massacre suspect Salah Abdeslam.

Funeral for a terrorist: Relatives and friends carry the coffin of Paris suicide bomber Brahim Abdeslam - whose brother is still on the run

17/03/16 18:52

Brahim Abdeslam, brother of fellow attacker Salah - who is still on the run - was today buried at a cemetery in the municipality of Schaerbeek in Brussels surrounded by his relatives and friends.

Terrified parents clutch their children as they are evacuated from school after four officers are injured in shootout in Brussels between police and Paris massacre jihadists

15/03/16 22:37

Worried parents (pictured) led their children away from an evacuated primary school in the Forest district of Brussels, where police were hunting a jihadi cell linked the Paris terror attacks.

French minister says Apple and other tech firms won't co-operate to break into Paris attackers' mobile phones

13/03/16 12:54

Apple and other tech companies have been accused of not doing enough to help French security services access two phones which belonged to suicide bombers from the Paris attacks.

Eagles of Death Metal's Jesse Hughes apologizes for suggesting Bataclan security was in on Paris attacks

12/03/16 14:56

Jesse Hughes (pictured), 43, was playing at the Bataclan with his band when terrorists stormed the concert hall in a series of attacks that left 130 dead on November 13 last year.

Bataclan guards deny Eagles Of Death Metal frontman's extraordinary suggestion that six members of security didn't turn up that night because they KNEW about terror attack

11/03/16 17:19

Hughes said he was suspicious of the behaviour of guards at the Paris venue ahead of the band's concert on November 13 during which ISIS terrorists massacred 89 music fans.

Police warn ISIS is planning 'enormous and spectacular' Paris-style attack in Britain to wage war on Western lifestyles

08/03/16 03:03

Scotland Yard Assistant Commissioner Mark Rowley, pictured, has said the terror group is 'trying to build bigger attacks' around the world and the UK is one of its number one targets.

Inquest into the death of British victim of Paris terror attacks Nick Alexander to take place in May

05/03/16 11:56

Nick Alexander, from Weeley, Essex, was killed alongside 88 others at the Bataclan during a series of co-ordinated terror attacks in Paris in November. An inquest will be held at 'the end of May'.

Eagles Of Death Metal's Jesse Hughes kisses girlfriend Tuesday Cross at BRITs as band dedicate their nomination to their supporters following tragic Paris shootings

24/02/16 23:30

They've been nominated for the International Group BRIT Award and Eagles Of Death Metal singer Jesse Hughes looked thrilled to be at the event at London's 02 arena on Wednesday night.

Staying in the EU would make a Paris-style terror attack MORE LIKELY, warns Iain Duncan Smith in a direct contradiction to David Cameron's claims on security

22/02/16 00:23

The Work and Pensions Secretary directly contradicted David Cameron's claims that EU membership made the UK 'safer and stronger' by saying the EU's open borders exposed the UK.

On-the-run Paris terror suspect Salah Abdeslam ‘was hiding in Brussels for THREE WEEKS after the attacks’

19/02/16 18:39

Salah Abdeslam (pictured) stayed in Schaerbeek for weeks following the attacks that killed 130 people and wounded 352 on November 13, a Belgian newspaper has claimed.

Paris attacks 'would not have happened' without encrypted apps hiding terror plans from security agencies, says NSA chief

18/02/16 20:13

Michael Rogers, the head of the NSA, said encryption apps - which hide the content of messages from security services - make preventing terror attacks 'much more difficult'.

Jihadists who carried out Paris terror attacks had planned to target Belgian nuclear plants, investigators reveal

18/02/16 15:33

Investigators probing last year's terror attacks in Paris have found footage of a senior Belgian nuclear official shot outside a house in Flanders, indicating that the terrorist were spying on them.

Eagles of Death Metal return to Paris to finish concert cut short in terror attacks after lead singer says the massacre may not have occurred if 'everyone had guns'

17/02/16 12:33

The Eagles of Death Metal have returned to Paris to 'finish' their November 13 performance - cut short when ISIS terrorists opened fire on audience members, killing 90.

Diesel the police dog WAS shot dead by her own side during Paris terror attacks

15/02/16 07:49

They not only killed Diesel, a seven-year-old Belgian Shepherd, but wounded innocent neighbours and threatened at least five other policemen with their reckless shooting during the Paris gun battle.