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The article presents information on young Western Muslim radicals traveling to Syria to protest the government of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad. The author looks at terrorist strikes by the global militant Islamist organization Al Qaeda, counterterrorism in the European Union, and the recruitment of Dutch Muslims in Belgium by Syrian Islamic extremists.

The article reports on a meeting of a foreign fighter surge team of experts from the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation, the State Department and the Department of Homeland Security with their counterparts from Belgium to tackle Belgium's ability to tract terrorist plots.

BRUSSELS -- Resolving internal divisions, NATO prepared on Friday to assume leadership from the United States of the military campaign against Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi's forces as allied officials scrambled to work out the precise command arrangements, senior NATO and American officials said. The agreement came as President Obama, facing criticism from his political opponents, began trying to seize control of his message about the Libyan conflict. On Friday, he defended his handling of the Libya crisis in a White House meeting and conference call with more than 20 Democrat and Republican Congressional leaders. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article reports on the terrorist attack held in Brussels in March 2016. It mentions the arrest of 29-year-old computer technician Reda Hame who was recruited by the Islamic State due to his ability of using an encryption program called TrueCrypt which is the first step in a process intended to mask communications with his ISIS handler back in Syria. Hame elaborates his training under the ISIS wherein one of the senior operatives demonstrated how to load a Kalashnokov rifle.

The article discusses the move of Belgium to confront the threats of the jihadist, an Islamic fundamentalist. It mentions the warning issued by the Belgian government following the return of more than 70 Belgians from Syria for a terrorist alliance. It adds that while the government officials have not seen any link on the attack of the satirical weekly magazine "Charlie Hebdo" in Paris, France and the rumors on the possible attack in the country, some common elements are being monitored.

The article reports on the identity of the two Islamic militants, who died in a police raid in Belgium after being suspected to have been part of a terrorist network, wherein one is said to be Belgian Khalid B. and the other is said to be Belgian Moroccan Sofiane A.