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The article discusses the threat of terrorism following the coordinated nail bombings at the airports and train station in Brussels, Belgium. It highlights the effort of the authorities to ensure the safety of the public against the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL). It also cites the bomb found during a search of the airport.

The article reports that a Belgian court sentenced several people for their involvement in an aborted terrorist plot in 2015 believed to have been organized by Abdelhamid Abaaoud, a Belgian operative for the terrorist group Islamic State.

The article reports on the continued security threat in Europe by the Islamic State (IS), evidenced by the failed bombing at Central Station in Brussels, Belgium in June 2017, wherein suspect Oussama Z. left a suitcase bomb that set off partial and relatively harmless explosions.

The article states that three teams of attackers from the militant organization Islamic State carried out simultaneous terrorist acts in Paris, France, on November 13, 2015. According to the article, French president François Hollande described the attacks as an act of war and said that France would retaliate. The article states that one of the alleged assailants may have entered Europe with a Syrian passport and that arrests of suspects were made in Belgium. It also discusses French participation in a military air campaign in Syria against Islamic State.