Brussels, Belgium, March 20, 2026 (AFP) - From Paris to Brussels: How same jihadist cell struck twice

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The Brussels attacks of March 2016, being commemorated this week, were the work of the same jihadist cell that struck Paris just months earlier -- in both cases the country's worst peacetime massacre. After the November 13, 2015 attacks in Paris, which left 130 people dead at the Bataclan concert hall and other sites, investigators later established that senior cell members were planning further operations. Potential targets are thought to have i......

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